| Inventory Number: | L 4490 | |
| Section Number: | ΠΠ 519 | |
| Title: | Lamp: Maker's Mark | |
| Category: | Lamps | |
| Description: | Mended from many pieces; a few fragments of rim, nozzle and wall restored in plaster; chips missing. Large lamp with double-pierced handle, double grooved above and below. Rim panelled, with stamped ovules. Reverse flat, outlined by two circular grooves, enclosing the signature. Discus, relief representations of Priam appealing to Achilles; helmet in exergue below. Behind Achilles (seated left, but with head turned back and resting on raised left hand), a veiled female figure. Kneeling at Achilles' feet, and clasping his right hand, Priam. Behind him, a nude youth standing left, holding a horse; the youth also mourns, with right hand raised to mouth. Unglazed. Pinkish-buff clay. Type XXVII of Corinth collection. <graphic> | |
| Context: | East continuation of House D, Room 1, on floor. From the floor of a house on the N.E. slope of the Hill of Nymphes, dating in 267 A.D. | |
| Notebook Page: | 1352 | |
| Negatives: | Leica, XXXIII-9, XXXIII-10 | |
| PD Number: | PD 1375-91 | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.04; P.L. 0.144; W. 0.125 | |
| Material: | Ceramic | |
| Date: | 24 April 1948 | |
| Section: | ΠΠ | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Bibliography: | AgoraPicBk 9 (1963), fig. 39. | |
| Hesperia 18 (1949), pl. 46, 1. | ||
| AJA 52 (1948), pl. LV, B. | ||
| Agora VII, no. 637, pp. 109-110, pl. 15. | ||
| References: | Publication: Agora VII Publication: AgoraPicBk 9 (1963) Publication: Hesperia 18 (1949) Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 220, p. 204 Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 238, p. 222 Drawing: PD 1375-91 (DA 11907) Images (10) Notebook Page: ΠΠ-4-62 (pp. 714-715) Notebook Page: ΠΠ-7-81 (pp. 1352-1353) Card: L 4490 Card: L 4490 |