Agora Object: L 316
Inventory Number:   L 316
Section Number:   Α
Title:   Lamp Fragment
Category:   Lamps
Description:   Upper part only preserved.
On the top of a heavy slightly hollow stem rests a shallow oil bowl, its front pinched together to form an open nozzle. At its back is attached a vertical loop handle, fastened below to the stem.
On the stem, between the bowl and lower end of the handle, is a raised ring.
The clay is red, and coarse and unglazed save on the inner surface of the bowl which carries a heavy dark glaze overlaid with powedery white paint.
Type XXXVI of Corinth collection.
Context:   South side.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.011
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   10 June 1931
Section:   Α
Elevation:   -1.40m.
Period:   Byzantine
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 212.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Notebook: Α-4
Notebook Page: Α-4-33 (pp. 650-651)
Card: L 316