Ceramic Reference Collection
Utility: Lamp
- Index:
- L 2018-017
- Type:
- Broneer type X
- Location:
- Fill of West Stoa Well 3138 (context 3167)
- Condition:
- Missing Parts
- Dimensions:
- H. to rim: 0.026m ; L. to nozzle: 0.069m ; Foot D.: 0.035m ; Fill Hole D.: 0.021m
- Description:
- Almost intact lamp, from which a small part of the nozzle is missing. Moldmade lamp with flat bottom, carinated body, slightly downturned rim and squared nozzle.
- Decoration:
- Traces of dark red (2.5YR 3/6) glaze all over
- Fabric:
- Light red (2.5YR 7/6) soft clay with rare fine subrounded spherical white inclusions
- Provenance:
- Sikyon
- Chronology:
- Hellenistic
- Bibliography:
- Isthmia III, 22-23, nos. 218-226, pls. 4,18
- Notes:
-
Utility: Lamp
- Index:
- L 2014-009
- Type:
- Broneer type XVI
- Location:
- West Part of Kilns Area to the SE of the Agora (context 1545)
- Condition:
- Complete Profile
- Dimensions:
- H.: 0.032m ; Pr. L.: 0.059m ; Pr. W.: 0.058m ; Base D.: 0.037m ; Body Th.: 0.004m
- Description:
- Entire base and part of the rim preserved. Wheel made lamp with raised, circular base, mostly flat resting surface, except for one clay protrusion, gently carinated body, and vertical rim with tapered, flaring lip. Stringcut mark on undersurface.
- Decoration:
-
- Fabric:
- Coarse dark greenish gray (Gley 1 4/5GY) fabric with 5% well sorted fine to medium inclusions, rare medium subrounded white inclusions, frequent small rounded spherical white inclusions, few fine vesicles, and planar voids.
- Provenance:
-
- Chronology:
- 1st to 2nd c. CE
- Bibliography:
- Close to Isthmia X, 13-15, no. 81, fig. 1
- Notes:
-
Utility: Lamp
- Index:
- L 2015-002
- Type:
-
- Location:
- Fill inside the kiln 1577 to the SE of the Agora (context 1594)
- Condition:
- Complete
- Dimensions:
- H.: 0.044m ; Body D. (max.): 0.078m ; Base D.: 0.038m ; Nozzle W.: 0.0285m ; Handle L.: 0.031m ; Handle W.: 0.0135m
- Description:
- Heavy encrustation on exterior and underside. Wheel made lamp with raised base and flat resting surface, echinoid body with wheel ridging, rounded shoulder with groove just under the edge of discus, undecorated concave discus, irregularly shaped fill hol
- Decoration:
-
- Fabric:
- Light red (2.5YR 6/8) with 5-10% well sorted fine-medium incls., frequent small-large rounded-subrounded white, few medium-large subangular black, frequent small-medium subangular gray, frequent small-medium subrounded-subangular tan incls., few vesicles.
- Provenance:
- Sikyon
- Chronology:
- Late 1st to mid-2nd c. CE
- Bibliography:
- Corinth XVIII.2, 26 no. 9, fig. 1, pl. 1
- Notes:
-
Utility: Lamp
- Index:
- L 2018-014
- Type:
- Broneer type XVII (local production)
- Location:
- Fill of West Stoa Well 3138 (context 3168)
- Condition:
- Complete
- Dimensions:
- H.: 0.03m ; L.: 0.08m ; Body D. (max.): 0.055m ; Base D.: 0.03m ; Fill Hole D.: 0.021m
- Description:
- Intact lamp with raised base, biconical body, large central fill hole, long nozzle with roughly triangular shape at end and oval wick hole. Burned at the end of the nozzle.
- Decoration:
- Glaze 2.5YR 3/2 partially preserved
- Fabric:
- Reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fabric with 10-15% well sorted fine sand inclusions, common subangular to subrounded white, gray and red inclusions, frequent fine sparkling inclusions.
- Provenance:
- Sikyon
- Chronology:
- Second half 1st c. BCE
- Bibliography:
- Sikyon I, 351, no. 84, fig. 6.5, pl. 43
- Notes:
-
Utility: Lamp
- Index:
- L 2019-001
- Type:
-
- Location:
- North Part of the West Stoa to the NW of the Agora (context 4509)
- Condition:
- Complete Profile
- Dimensions:
- H. (to rim).: 0.027m ; H. (to handle): 0.039m ; Pr. L.: 0.072m
- Description:
- Two joining fragments preserve the handle, the base and part of the discus. Nozzle missing. Lamp with molded base, concave underside with groove on the exterior of the base, echinoid body, rounded rim with slightly raised edge before concave discus and tr
- Decoration:
- Discus: single-lined cross with interior jewels ; Rim: globules ; On back of lower body curved lines stretch from base to handle
- Fabric:
- Local Reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) cooking fabric.
- Provenance:
- Sikyon
- Chronology:
- First half of the 7th c. CE
- Bibliography:
- Oikonomou 1998, 490, 492, no. 80, fig. 4
- Notes:
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