| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2722 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2722 | |
| Description: | Leaf-shaped lamp with flat bottom, deep straight flaring body, broad flat rim with seam visible, square to oval concave disk with 2 fill holes in lower rt. and upper lt. corners, large air hole at base of channel to nozzle; edge of sick hole. Solid vertical lug handle with top and bottom halves askew in moulds. | |
| Decoration: | 2 grooves framing bottom; rim: herringbone; disk: monogram Chi-Rho with Rho to rt., cross hatched with circle at center. Handle: 2 grooves to base. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Incised in mould on bottom: branch with C E | |
| Material: | Fine brown to dark brown clay with few fine white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 5/4 to 7.5YR 4/3 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., intact except for nozzle and ca. 1/3 lt. side of rim, body. Traces of burning on rim, disk. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.038 (max) H00.029 (rim) W00.058 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.073 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | LR | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB113 P4 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 035 17 Basket: NB113 P4 |
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