Corinth Object: L 2001 4
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2001 4
Title:   BRONEER TYPE X LAMP
Category Code:   L
Year:   2001
Object Number:   4
Description:   Wheelmade lamp with disk foot with concave undersurface, walls curving continuously to inward-sloping plain rim. Small fill hole with a diam. 00.018. Long, wide nozzle with flat upper surface. Horizontal strap handle attached to upper body opposite nozzle. See Broneer X, Broneer Cat. 167. See Howland 30B, examples 419, 420.
Decoration:   Black-glazed in and out.
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with rare medium white inclusions and voids.
Munsell Color:   Clay: 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile. Complete foot, 1/3 body, 2/3 rim, complete nozzle with wick hole, traces of attachment of handle. Burning on nozzle. Non-joining frgts. in lot.
Manufacture:   HW
Dimensions Actual:   H00.029 D00.035 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.077
Dimensions Restored:   D00.051 (max)
Period:   3rd c. B.C.
Chronology:   For Attic type mid-4th to 1/4 3rd c. B.C., Agora XXIX, p. 500 redates to 325-275 B.C.
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB939 B77 P148, LOT 2001 041
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Image: bw 2002 002 12
Basket: NB939 B77 P148
Notebook Page: NB 939, spread 79 (pp. 148 - 149)