Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 134 | |
Title: | MINIATURE LAMP | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 134 | |
Description: | Miniature lamp with flat base and convex walls. Inturned rim with tapered lip. Interior floor slightly convex. Horizontal strap handle attached at shoulder and rising slightly above the plane of the rim. Nozzle roughly squared. | |
Decoration: | String marks on base. Visible finger prints in several places. Black slip over all, fired red in some places. | |
Material: | Fine pink clay with rare fine inclusions and rare voids | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete. Glaze flaking. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | 2nd half of the 5th c. B.C. or later (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 212) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P149 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracaotta Factory, Deposit 9. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 80 (pp. 148 - 149) |