Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2006 1 | |
Title: | TYPE XXVII LAMP WITH NEREID | |
Category Code: | L | |
Year: | 2006 | |
Object Number: | 1 | |
Description: | Broneer Type XXVII lamp with concave disk with one fill hole off-center; small air hole on disk edge at bottom of nozzle. | |
Decoration: | Unglazed. Rim with ovules interrupted by raised rectangular panels at two sides and by raised trapezoidal nozzle; double groove around disk on which Nereid seated side-saddle on hybrid animal with head and upper body of a panther, but lower body and tail of a fish or other sea creature; Nereid looks to the left, showing complete profile of right side of face, body is frontal; she has right arm raised with hand placed above head and left arm pulling chiton out to the left; she wears wrinkly arm-covering knee-long chiton with himation worn diagonally across her left shoulder and flowing freely from her right shoulder to tail of beast, ankle boots. Similar to LIMC Nereides 87 (Delphi Museum 3126). Similar also to L-4480. | |
Mythology: | Nereid | |
Material: | Fine pink clay with few small spherical angular white inclusions, and rare medium subrounded platy and spherical rounded voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/3 (pink) to 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining fragments preserve 4/5 of disk, 2/4 of shoulder, fill hole on disk, air hole at edge of disk; 3/4 of nozzle with 1/3 wick hole edge preserved. Traces of burning on wick hole. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | Diam. of disk 0.10 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. from preserved end opposite nozzle 0.13 | |
Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Broneer type XXVII, category 3 or 4 is Hadrianic (Corinth IV, ii); Slane dates the type as early 3rd century (Corinth XVIII, ii); LIMC gives 2nd century date for Delphi example. | |
Area: | Panaghia north | |
Context: | NB983 B47 P104 | |
NB983 B45 P100, LOT 2006 023 | ||
LOT 2006 023 | ||
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia north Image: bw 2006 019 17 Basket: NB983 B45 P100 Basket: NB983 B47 P104 Notebook Page: NB 983, spread 55 (pp. 100 - 101) Notebook Page: NB 983, spread 57 (pp. 104 - 105) |