| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 3462 | |
| Title: | IMPORTED LATE ROMAN LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 3462 | |
| Description: | Leaf-shaped lamp with low base ring, flat undersurface, low wide-flaring body, broad sloping shoulder, giving biconical profile, wide fill hole D00.020, surrounded by 2 ridges and channel which extend to enclose nozzle, nozzle enclosed in body, with pointed tip, small wick hole. Solid lug handle opposite nozzle. For similar lamp see L-XXXX-3738. | |
| Decoration: | On shoulder, in low relief: schematic vine, enclosing pair of branches and "sun" flanking handle, groups of circles with dots, star flanking nozzle. In channel between fill hole and nozzle, 3 raised lines.See L-XXXX-3738, decoration same but reorganized. | |
| Material: | Hard-fired, somewhat coarse clay with abundant fine black, red, a few white, inclusions, fired salmon pink to off-white. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly pinker than 5YR 6/6 to near 10YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact except for tip of handle. Burning on nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.092 W00.045 H00.029 (to rim) | |
| Weight Description: | H00.039 (to handle) | |
| Weight: | 00.039 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman ? Context 10th-11th c. | |
| Area: | Forum northeast | |
| Context: | NB165 P144 | |
| Provenance: | Near East | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum northeast Image: bw 1997 001 02 Basket: NB165 P144 Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 82 (pp. 144 - 145) |
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