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Agora Object: L 559
Inventory Number:   L 559
Section Number:   ΣΤ' 85
Title:   Seven Nozzle Lamp
Category:   Lamps
Description:   Vertical band handle broken away. Fragmentary.
Double convex body, the lower part entirely missing.
Top sunken around filling hole.
Nozzles set at irregular intervals round the circular body of the lamp; the single nozzle completely preserved is rather short, rounded on top, with irregularly fluked tip and large wick hole.
Thin grayish black metallic glaze.
Attic clay.
Type XII (early spreading variety) of Corinth collection, type 34B of Agora collection.
ADDENDA Lamps L 551 to L 559 found together. A number of fragmentary lamps from the same pithos have been boxed separately, along with the finer sherds. See also pottery 589-630.
Context:   Pithos.
Negatives:   Leica, 4-332, LIII-2, 2-175
PD Number:   PD 635-118
Dimensions:   L. (from inner edge of rim to tip of single nozzle) 0.068; Diam. (of body) ca. 0.084; H. ca. 0.038; Max. Dim. 0.12
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   22 April 1932
Section:   ΣΤ'
Grid:   ΣΤ':53/Δ
Deposit:   H 16:4
Period:   Hellenistic
Bibliography:   Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 388, no. D 55, fig. 75.
    Agora IV, no. 460, p. 108, pls. 16, 43.
References:   Publication: Agora IV
Publication: Hesperia 3 (1934)
Publication Page: Agora 4, s. 118, p. 108
Publication Page: Agora 4, s. 232, p. 222
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 541, p. 502
Image: 2012.20.0342 (2-175)
Image: 2012.23.0100 (4-332)
Deposit: H 16:4
Card: L 559
Card: L 559