Corinth Object: L 156
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 156
Title:   LAMP BRONEER TYPE XVI
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   156
Description:   Stand consisting of a hollow cylinder, closed at top and flaring at top into a broad horizontal rim; rising from this element is a second hollow cylinder. Attached to either side of upper cylinder are two type XVI lamps: flaring lower body, turning up with slight compound profile to slightly flaring rim; broad horizontal disk with convex profile curving down to small fill hole; stmp of nozzle.
Decoration:   White slip over all.
Material:   Fine pale grayish buff clay, sandy to touch.
Condition:   Missing parts. Single frgt., preserving top of stand with much of one lamp, base of wall of second, continuing cylinder of 2nd storey of stand (?); of one lamp have complete body, base of nozzle.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   D00.063 (bottom cylinder) D00.048 (upper cylindrer) D00.057 (lamp)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.075
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   late 1st or early 2nd c. ?
Area:   Early Excavations
Context:   Early Excavations, Provenance unknown
Provenance:   Corinth?
Bibliography:   Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 288
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b
Monument: Early Excavations
Image: bw 2002 037 01