Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 171 | |
Title: | MINIATURE LAMP | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 171 | |
Description: | Miniature lamp flat base, echinoid body and inturned rim with rounded lip. Long, rounded nozzle. Similar to other lamps from the same deposit, KL 167-176. | |
Decoration: | String marks on base. Black glaze over all, mostly fired red. | |
Material: | Very fine pink clay with rare inclusions and occasional fine voids | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining frgts. Missing handle and part of back. Glaze flaking. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | Middle to 3rd quarter of the 4th c. B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 43) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P61 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. (N.B. Benson confused Deposits 5 and 6 in Corinth 15.3, but the notebooks and Corinth 15.1 make it clear that this is Deposit 6). | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell 1954, Corinth 15.2, p. 267, cat. 94 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61) |