Corinth Object: L 3796
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 3796
Title:   CLEAR-GLAZED LOCAL BYZANTINE LAMP
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   3796
Description:   Pedestal lamp with flat base, center open where attached to pedestal; straight flaring lower saucer, pinched slightlyon one side to form nozzle. Tapering cylindrical pedestal or stem, hollow at top, with 2nd saucer at height of ca. 00.038; 2nd saucer shallow, floor flat with low upturned rim, pinched at two sides to form nozzle.
Decoration:   Clear glaze over white slip, over all but outside of lower saucer and bottom.
Material:   Fine buff clay fired to pale red-brown at nozzle.
Condition:   Complete profile. Five joining frgts., complete except for ca. 1/4 lower saucer, chips in upper.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.098 D00.096 (max)
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   Middle Byzantine ?
Area:   South Stoa west
Context:   NB195 P149
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa west
Basket: NB195 P149
Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 80 (pp. 149 - 150)