Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2013 12 | |
Title: | LATE ROMAN CORINTHIAN IMITATION OF ATTIC UNGLAZED LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Year: | 2013 | |
Object Number: | 12 | |
Description: | Moldmade, Broneer Type XXVIII lamp with wide, horizontal rim, with air hold between disk and nozzle, circular disk, concave with raised framing ring, central fill hole, knob handle, unpierced. | |
Decoration: | Eight stamped circles on disk around fill hole, herringbone on rim. Molding is indistinct and doesn't match any of Karavieri's rim types (pls. 53-54), perhaps altered. Two transverse grooves on handle. | |
Material: | Reddish yellow clay, with few white inclusions and mica. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR, between 7/6 and 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment, top half of lamp broken off along line of mold. Handle, disk fully preserved, with most of rim and none of nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Cf. Karivieri, cat. 128, with wavy lines on rim (1/2 5th c.); Karivieri, cat. 140, with herringbone on rim (1/2 6th century). | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Context: | Nezi Field, context 1080, LOT 2013 008 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2013 0840 Basket: Nezi Field, context 1080 |