Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2013 11 | |
Title: | LATE ROMAN NORTH AFRICAN LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Year: | 2013 | |
Object Number: | 11 | |
Description: | Moldmade lamp with broad, flat rim, round, concave disk, fin-shaped handle, extending outward from edge of rim. | |
Decoration: | Maltese cross on disk decorated with raised double circles denoting jewels (cf. Hayes, LRP, Style E(ii), Types 327-328). Raised triangles on rim with incised hatching, set between two raised ridges. | |
Material: | Hard light reddish brown clay, few white inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt, preserves handle with 20% of rim and disk. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Jeweled cross style E(ii) is 2/4 6th c. (Slane and Sanders, Hesperia 74.2, cat. 38, citing Hayes, LRP, pp. 313-314) | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Context: | Nezi Field, context 1080, LOT 2013 008 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2013 0825 Basket: Nezi Field, context 1080 |