Agora Object: L 3973
Inventory Number:   L 3973
Section Number:   ΓΓ 707
Title:   Three Nozzle Lamp
Category:   Lamps
Description:   Part of floor, handle and two-thirds of rim missing; restored in plaster.
Low offset base, the under-surface rising slightly toward the center. Wall and rim form continuous curve; rim slopes sharply down into interior. One broad, short, rounded nozzle preserved, but there were probably three nozzles, since horizontal handle (attachment preserved) was placed at side of lamp at angle of 45 degrees to preserved nozzle.
Glaze unevenly and streakily applied, mottled from black to reddish-brown, the resting-surface in part reserved, and a disk at center of underside.
Type IV of Corinth collection, type 21B of Agora collection.
ADDENDA Similar three-nozzled lamps of types IV and V in Acropolis Museum.
Context:   Well; containers 11-22.
Negatives:   Leica, L-66
PD Number:   PD 635-52
Dimensions:   H. (rim) 0.029; Diam. ca. 0.013
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   2-19 May 1939
Section:   ΓΓ
Grid:   ΓΓ:46/ΝΖ
Elevation:   -11.4--11.4m.
Masl:   -11.4m.
Deposit:   F 19:4
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Agora IV, no. 170, p. 47, pls. 6, 34.
References:   Publication: Agora IV
Publication Page: Agora 4, s. 57, p. 47
Publication Page: Agora 4, s. 240, p. 230
Deposit: F 19:4
Card: L 3973
Card: L 3973