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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KL 174 | | Title: | | MINIATURE LAMP | | Category: | | Lamps | | Category Code: | | KL | | Object Number: | | 174 | | Description: | | Miniature lamp with flat base, echinoid body and inturned rim with rounded lip. Rounded nozzle with hole slightly off center. Round, horizontal handle attached opposite. Similar to other lamps from the same deposit, KL 167-176. | | Decoration: | | String marks on base. Black glaze over all. | | Material: | | Fine very pale brown clay with few small inclusions and rare small voids | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Complete. Glaze fugitive. | | Manufacture: | | WM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | Middle to the 3rd quarter of the 4th c. B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p.43) | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB114 P61 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. (N.B. Benson confused Deposits 5 and 6 in Corinth 15.3, but the notebooks and Corinth 15.1 make it clear that this is Deposit 6). | | Bibliography: | | Cited in Risser 2001, Corinth 7.5, p. 267, cat. 94 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61)
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