Corinth Object: L 1621
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 1621
Title:   BYZANTINE GREEN-GLAZED SAUCER LAMP
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   1621
Description:   Type XXXV lamp with flat base, shallow saucer curving up to rounded lip; in center of saucer is a small bowl with convex profile contracting to round fill hole; in one side of bowl at floor is a small wick hole.
Decoration:   Green glaze over all.
Material:   Moderately fine clay fired gray, with rare small to medium white and red angular inclusions, also fine black, white ones.
Munsell Color:   Near 5Y 5/1
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete profile: complete base, ca. 1/10 rim, complete bowl.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.023 D00.040 (base) D00.040 (bowl)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Byzantine
Area:   Forum southeast South Stoa
Context:   NB135 P15
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southeast South Stoa
Image: bw 2000 012 13
Basket: NB135 P15
Notebook Page: NB 135, spread 12 (pp. 14 - 15)