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Accession_Number REDMG:1964.1616.1
Shape Lamp
Shape_description Ovoid body with handle and nozzle included in the shape. Flat shoulder, raised rim of discus and slightly sunken discus with filling hole just off the central axis to the front right. Small straight sided nozzle, rounded tip with large, slightly oval wick hole. Small pinched vertical handle attaching from the discus down towards the base. Small unmarked circular base, slightly concave. joining marks still distinguishable.
Material Terracotta
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 2.5YR 5/6
Decoration Viewed from the nozzle; circular raised moulded rings around the discus, moulded decoration within however indistinguishable. Two bands on the crest of the handle. Moulded line from the handle going across the discus decoration and ending to the right of the nozzle.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact, small anomily at the tip of the nozzle. Relief is worn and indistinguishable. Wick hole and nozzle ar both blackened from use.
Technique/Style Mouldmade
Provenance Corinth
Period
Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.93.0163.jpg		Oblique view of the side of a lamp.

2005.01.0216.jpg		Top view of the top of a lamp.

2005.01.0217.jpg		Top view of the bottom of a lamp.

2005.01.0263.jpg		Front view of the side of a lamp.

2005.01.0265.jpg		Front view of the side of a lamp.
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Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 3.0
Diameters 6.4
Handle_height 1.6
Other_dims. L. 8.7
Location 11.1.1
Edited_by Denise; Alexandra
Date_edited 14.08.2002; 09.11.2004
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