Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 3797 | |
Title: | CLEAR-GLAZED LOCAL BYZANTINE LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 3797 | |
Description: | Pedestal lamp with low disk foot, flat resting surface, center hollow. Lower saucer relatively deep with straight flaring sides, two pinched nozzles; central pedestal, hollow at top, with horizontal suspension hole 00.016 m. below tip.2nd saucer at H00.038; second has flat floor, curving up to low vertical rim with round lip; pinched on one preserved side. | |
Decoration: | White slip over all; lower half glazed brown unevenly, extending onto bottom of upper saucer. Upper saucer clear glazed. | |
Material: | Fine hard-fired red clay with rare tiny white inclusions. | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile; complete except for ca. 1/3 lower saucer, 1/2 upper saucer. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.106 D00.087 | |
Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
Chronology: | Middle Byzantine ? | |
Area: | South Stoa west | |
Context: | NB195 P151 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Stoa west Basket: NB195 P151 Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 81 (pp. 151 - 152) |