Corinth Object: L 3797
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)