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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 2874 | | Title: | | BRONZE LAMPHANGER OR WICK POKER (?) | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 2874 | | Description: | | Bronze object consisting of a thin, flattened strip of metal bent at one end into a thin loop/hook. Attached, a figure-eight link. May be a lamphanger (cf. Sarachane 1, pp. 239-240) or an implement for poking lamp wicks or cleaning lamps (cf. Corinth XII, p. 194, #1462-1463). | | Material: | | Bronze | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Two joining fragments preserve part of rod and hook element and one figure-eight link; end of rod broken off. Surface corroded. | | Dimensions Actual: | | W. of rod 0.002; Th. of rod 0.001; L. of figure-eight link 0.013 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | L. 0.094; L. of rod 0.084 | | Period: | | Byzantine | | Chronology: | | Byzantine? | | Area: | | Peribolos of Apollo | | Context: | | Peribolos of Apollo, N of Peribolos of Apollo | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Peribolos of Apollo
Basket: Peribolos of Apollo, N of Peribolos of Apollo
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