Corinth Object: L 4874
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 4874
Title:   GLAZED FRANKISH PEDESTAL LAMP WITH SAUCER AND BOWL
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   4874
Description:   Lamp with tall conical pedestal, tapering slightlyto saucer and lamp bowl. Saucer has flaringshallow wall, pinched at left of handle. Above,bowl has wide flaring shallow wall, thin verticallip; center of floor nippled. Single vertical handle rises from underside of lower saucer toexterior wall of upper bowl.
Decoration:   Slipped from top downward, to most of undersideof saucer. Clear, slightly greenish glaze overinside of lamp bowl; one spot on upper pedestal.
Material:   Medium hard, fine buff clay withh little lime,brown mudstone, voids.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 7/5/3
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper part of pedestal,ca. 1/2 saucer (full profile, all of upper bowl'sfloor, ca. 1/8 rim. Stumps of handle
Manufacture:   CO
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.197
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   2nd half 13th c.
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB214 P74
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest
Basket: NB214 P74