Corinth Object: HE 16
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   HE 16
Title:   IMITATION NORTH AFRICAN LAMP
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   HE
Object Number:   16
Description:   Lamp with an ovoid body to a horizontal shoulder with shallow concave discus and a small round central fill hole. Shape similar to a Broneer-type XXXI, Corinth 4.1, pp. 118-9, pls. XXI and XXII.
Writing:   stamp. Between the edge of the shoulder and the discus TA
Material:   Medium coarse pink to reddish yellow clay with few small spherical and subrounded tabular white and pale yellow inclusions, rare small angular platy dark gray and pink inclusions, and rare small voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/4-6
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves small part of shoulder. Surface heavily worn.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Preserved:   L. 0.039 (max.), W. 0.039 (max.), Th. 0.011 (max.)
Weight Description:   0.01
Weight:   0.01
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Provenance:   NE Peloponnese?
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece