| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2767 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP, BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2767 | |
| Description: | Lamp with leaf-shaped flat bottom, straight flaring body, flat rim, concave disk with 2 fill holes - 1 in lower rt. quarter, 2nd at base of nozzle; air hole at base of wick hole, nozzle enclosed in body, large wick hole. Solid unpierced lug handle, top and bottom misaligned. Lamp lopsided. | |
| Decoration: | Bottom: branch with impressed dot to either side; rim: herringbone, set in from edge as if from smaller mould, disk: in low relief, dolphin swimming to rt., with band of incised lines surrounding it. Handle: 2 impressed dots at juncture of handle and disk, single dot at base of handle. | |
| Material: | Semi-fine brown clay with abundant fine white inclusions, some voids, a few sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Yellower than 7.5YR 5/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. Burning on nozzle and disk. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.084 H00.042 (max) H00.030 (rim) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Context mid 7th c. | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB136 P162 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 036 10 Basket: NB136 P162 |
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