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 |