Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 74 | |
Title: | ARCHAIC 'COCKED HAT' LAMP | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 74 | |
Description: | Lamp with flat, string-cut base, wide flaring body, continuing into flaring rim turned out on side and back, and pulled up vertically to right of nozzle; rim sharply articulated from body on interior. Rim also pulled vertically, then pinched to form unbridged nozzle. | |
Decoration: | Glaze fired red on interior floor and body, and nozzle. | |
Material: | Fine clay fired pale yellow to pink on interior surface, with several coarse voids around bottom. | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/2 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving right half of lamp, full proifle, less than half of nozzle. Glaze worn. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.022-00.030 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.082 | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Chronology: | late 7th-early 6th c. | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | Potters' Quarter, From Northwest Angle Deposit | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Northwest Angle Deposit. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 1, p. 253 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952 Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 6481 Basket: Potters' Quarter, From Northwest Angle Deposit |