Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2922 | |
Title: | ATTIC GLAZED LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 2922 | |
Old Number: | Temp. No. 067 | |
Description: | Lamp with 2 grooves surrounding flat bottom, deep straight flaring body, flat rim, ring surrounding deep concave disk with at least 1 small fill hole off-center, solid lug handle. | |
Decoration: | Rim: plain except for panels. disk: Eros, with wings outstretched, preserving head, neck, head turned back to proper rt., under which a basket? Metallic red-brown slip over all. | |
Mythology: | Eros | |
Material: | Hard-fired light brown clay with common tiny voids, few fine white and subrounded red inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Clay: yellower than 5YR 5/6 slip: ca. 2.5YR 4/4 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile except for center of disk; complete base, underside of nozzle, half body-rim 1/3 disk, all of handle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.046 (max) H00.036 (rim) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.082 | |
Dimensions Restored: | W00.08 | |
Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
Chronology: | 4th c. A.C. | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB122 P148 | |
Provenance: | Attica | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 040 27a Basket: NB122 P148 Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 79 (pp. 148 - 149) |