Corinth Object: KL 53
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KL 53
Title:   LAMP BRONEER TYPE II
Category:   Lamps
Category Code:   KL
Object Number:   53
Description:   Lamp with flattened or rounded bottom, curving up to vertical body with convex profile, broad horizontal rim, projecting beyond body, and overhanging interior, with slight ridge around moderate fill hole.
Decoration:   Bottom, body reserved; on rim from out in: thick stripe on outer edge, three thin circumference lines, one broad stripe, three lines, thin stripe on lip of fill hole, all in red-brown glaze. Possible glaze on floor.
Material:   Fine clay, fired gray-buff on exterior to pale red at core.
Munsell Color:   Slightly redder than 10YR 6/3-10YR 6/2 (surface) 7.5YR 5/5 (core)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving outer edge of floor to rim, 1/8 body, 1/5 rim.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.022 L00.055
Dimensions Restored:   D00.08-00.085 (body) D00.09 (rim) D00.05 (fill hole)
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   2nd half 6th c. to 480 BC
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   Potters' Quarter, Exact provenance unknown.
Provenance:   Corinth ?
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 2001 023 01
Basket: Potters' Quarter, Exact provenance unknown.