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| 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)
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