Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 1581 | |
Title: | ATTIC GLAZED LATE ROMAN LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 1581 | |
Description: | Lamp with flat bottom, deep straight flaring body, broad rim rising slightly to shallow, concave disk set off by 2 circumference grooves, small central fill hole with framing ring. Air hole at edge of disk, with narrow channel towards wick hole, edge of which preserved. Vertical lug handle. | |
Decoration: | Bottom: ring of small stamped circles with one in center, framed by two grooves; rim: incised branchframed by double circles, placed at 3:00 and 9:00, circles framing handle and nozzle, with double bars beside nozzle. disk plain. Handle: 3 grooves to base. Dull purplish red glaze over all. For rim see Agora VII N974 (1st half 4th) | |
Material: | Fine hard-fired red-brown clay with scattered tiny white inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly grayer than 5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Four joining frgts., complete profile; 3/4 bottom, body, nearly all rim except for a few gaps, all disk, most of handle; missing nozzle, handle top. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.035 (rim) D00.076 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.044 L00.090 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | 4th c. A.C. | |
Area: | Temple E | |
Context: | NB128 P119 | |
Provenance: | Attica | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Temple E Basket: NB128 P119 Notebook Page: NB 128, spread 65 (pp. 119 - 120) |