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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KL 176 | | Title: | | MINIATURE LAMP | | Category: | | Lamps | | Category Code: | | KL | | Object Number: | | 176 | | Description: | | Miniature lamp with flat base, echinoid body and inturned rim with rounded lip. Nozzel squared off on tip. Handle attachments opposite nozzle rising slightly above rim. 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 rare fine inclusions and rare voids | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (Very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Missing parts. One frgt. Missing one third of lip, including part of nozzle. Handle missing. Glaze fugitive. | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | Middle to 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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