Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 1411 | |
Title: | LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXI | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 1411 | |
Description: | Lamp with low broad base ring, flat bottom; deep slightly flaring body with slight convex profile, narrow flat rim, deep concave disk flattening out to broad flat surface around small central fill hole, long nozzle, neck of which framed by double volutes, large wick hole at tip. | |
Decoration: | Rim: 2 grooves; disk: rays on sloping segment, 2 concentric grooves framing flat surface around fill hole, nozzle: between volutes a long pointed "leaf" with grooved lines as filler. Dull red-brown slip over all. | |
Material: | Fine yellowish gray-buff clay, well-compacted. | |
Munsell Color: | Near 2.5Y 8/3 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Numerous joining frgts., presserving complete front half of lamp to tip of nozzle. Unclear whether burning on nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.057 D00.122 (max) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.18 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Early Roman | |
Area: | Odeion | |
Context: | NB101 P65 | |
Bibliography: | Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 397 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b Monument: Odeion Image: bw 2000 013 01 Basket: NB101 P65 Notebook Page: NB 101, spread 38 (pp. 64 - 65) |