Corinth Object: L 2649
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2649
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2649
Old Number:   Temp. No. 093
Description:   Lamp with flat bottom with groove, deep straight flaring body, pared at shoulder, broad flat rim, flat ring framing deep concave disk with central fill hole surrounded by flat ring, air hole at edge of disk, U-shaped nozzle in a panel, pierced vertical lug handle.
Decoration:   Rim: impressed tongues framing disk; dis: rays. Handle: 2 grooves to bottom.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed on bottom in Greek: SPWSIANOU N only a single stroke ?
Material:   Fine pinkish buff clay with tiny sparkling and poss. white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Nine joining frgts., preserving complete except for most of left side of rim, hole in right side. Slight burning on nozzle.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   L00.103 H00.053 (max) H00.032 (rim) W00.080
Period:   Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:   2nd-early 3rd c.
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB122 P166
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 038 34
Basket: NB122 P166
Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 88 (pp. 166 - 167)