Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 4838 | |
Title: | BRONEER TYPE XXII LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 4838 | |
Description: | Broneer Type XXII lamp with slightly raised base within circle, oblique wall, and narrow flat rim. disk is shallow and concave. Filling hole off-center below figural representation. Rim profile as in Corinth IV.2, p. 74, fig. 34:6. | |
Decoration: | Very worn black to brown slip (7.5 YR 6/6). Nozzle has shoulder volutes. Three unevenly spaced light gooves forming framing rings between rim and discus. Within discus, a griffin gallops to the right. Bailey, BMC Lamps II (Q901, p. 42-43); F. Miltner, Forschungen in Ephesos IV.2, Vienna (1937), pl. I.1, p. 106. | |
Mythology: | Griffin | |
Material: | soft slightly gritty very pale brown clay with few fine black inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Two joining fragments preserve most of left half of lamp except tip of nozzle and handle. Slip almost completely worn. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. to rim 0.024 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.081, W. 0.052 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Third quarter of the first century | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth XXVIII.2, no. 15; Slane 1990, Corinth 18.2, cat. 15 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Slane, Corinth 18:2, 1990 |