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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | HE 17 | | Title: | | IMITATION NORTH AFRICAN LAMP | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | HE | | Object Number: | | 17 | | 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; Aupert 1980, p. 410, no. 42, fig. 24; Hjohlman 2002, pp. 48, 160, no. 128. | | Decoration: | | Palm branch decoration on shoulder; maltese cross on discus. As Aupert 1980, p. 410, no. 42, fig. 24 and Hjohlman 2002, pp. 48, 160, no. 128. | | Material: | | Semi-fine granular reddish yellow clay with few fine sparkling inclusions, few fine to small subrounded tabular and platy white, pink, and dark gray inclusions, and rare small to large voids. | | Munsell Color: | | 5YR 6/6-8 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt preserves small part of shoulder. Surface heavily worn. | | Manufacture: | | MM | | Dimensions Preserved: | | L. 0.032 (max.), W. 0.046 (max.), Th. 0.006 (max.) | | Weight Description: | | 0.01 | | Weight: | | 0.01 | | Period: | | Late Antique | | Chronology: | | as late as 7th century AD based on Emporio deposits | | Provenance: | | unknown | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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