| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 3738 | |
| Title: | LATE ROMAN IMPORTED LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 3738 | |
| Description: | Lamp with flat bottom, straight flaring shallow body, tapering broad shoulder, giving biconical profile; large fill hole surrounded by 2 ridges. Vertical lug handle attached to shoulder opposire missing nozzle. For shape see L-XXXX-3462 | |
| Decoration: | Decoration in low relief on shoulder: schematic vine curving around groups of motifs: flanking handle, group of dotted circles, then large rosestte, followed by dotted circles near nozzle. For similar decoration but differently organized see L-XXXX-3462. | |
| Material: | Moderately coarse pale yellow clay, fired gray-buff at core, with frequent tiny black inclusins, rare coarser gray, red ones. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 7.5/2 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile except for nozzle. Ca. half lamp with complete handle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.035 (rim) H00.045 (max) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.075 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.066 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman ? Context medieval | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB174 P91 | |
| Provenance: | Near East ? | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum south central Image: bw 1997 001 01 Image: bw 1997 003 03 Image: bw 1999 027 21 Basket: NB174 P91 Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 51 (pp. 91 - 92) |
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