Agora Object: L 2727
Inventory Number:   L 2727
Section Number:   ΟΑ 20
Title:   Lamp Fragment
Category:   Lamps
Description:   Fragment of wall and rim preserved.
Apparently a lamp with upper and lower walls meeting at a sharp angle and shoulder curving into rim, without a marked division.
On rim, in low relief, traces of a cross (?), with conventional ornaments in spaces.
Unglazed.
Gritty pink clay, micaceous and full of bits (white particles); in part buff at surface.
Early Christian. A typical lamp of this period.
Context:   Second cut south, extension; black fill behind Pithos D. 6th. century A.D. or later.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.L. 0.068
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   12 February 1937
Section:   ΟΑ
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Agora VII, no. 2940, p. 199, pl. 47.
References:   Publication: Agora VII
Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 228, p. 212
Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 234, p. 218
Card: L 2727
Card: L 2727