Agora Object: L 890
Inventory Number:   L 890
Section Number:   Η' 193
Title:   Lamp Fragment
Category:   Lamps
Description:   Part of shield of lamp; all the rest of the lamp is broken away; the solid handle is preserved in part behind.
The shield has an imitation rivet head at the junction of the shield and the body. On the face of the shield in low relief, is a medallion surrounded by interlacind squares, making the exterior shape an octagon. Within the medallion a figure seated on an altar (?) and steadying some object on his knee. The figure's clothes are elaborately embroidered; on the right wrist a multiple bracelet. In the field of the medallion, double spirals.
Thin red wash (imported).
Fine red clay.
Type XXXI of Corinth collection.
Context:   In burning.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. 0.081
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   22 April 1933
Section:   Η'
Grid:   Η':10/ΝΒ
Elevation:   55.30m.
Masl:   55.3m.
Deposit:   H-I 7-8:1
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 9 (1963), fig. 66.
    Agora VII, no. 322, p. 99, pl. 10.
References:   Publication: Agora VII
Publication: AgoraPicBk 9 (1963)
Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 219, p. 203
Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 230, p. 214
Deposit: H-I 7-8:1
Notebook: Η'-3
Notebook Page: Η'-3-29 (pp. 441-442)
Card: L 890