| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 182 | |
| Title: | LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 182 | |
| Description: | Lamp with flat bottom framed by groove, deep flaring and rounded body, broad nearly flat rim with 2 raised panels; plastic ring around shallow concave disk with off-center fill hole at 2:00; slit airhole at edge of disk; small U-shaped nozzle framed by raised panel. Vertical pierced lug handle with 2 grooves down back, ends well above bottom. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: impressed tongues. disk: head of Tyche wearing mural crown; hair arranged in scalloped waves around face with lock hanging down on either side of face; projecting from top and 2 sides of head are 3 legs of triskeles: 2 to either side directed downward, top directed rt. Plaster bubbles. | |
| Writing: | stamp. Inscribed on bottom, Greek: | |
| Mythology: | Tyche | |
| Attributes: | Mural crown | |
| Material: | Fine clay with rare lime inclusions, fired unevenly from pale buff to pinkish buff. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/3 to ca. 7.5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. Burning on nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.028 (rim) H00.048 (max) L00.090 D00.070 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd-3rd c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance unknown | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 603 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 1863 Image: bw 2000 041 21a |
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