Corinth Object: L 279
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 279
Title:   LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII: DISK
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   279
Description:   Lamp with top of flaring body, narrow rim nearly flat, plastic band around shallow, concave disk with small fill hole at edge at 3:00.
Decoration:   Rim: impressed tongues. disk: blurred relief figure of Eros facing front, head down.
Mythology:   Eros
Material:   Fine pinkish tan clay with rare lime inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Near 7.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of rim and disk, most of fill hole.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Preserved:   MPDim00.037
Period:   Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:   2nd-early 3rd c. A.C.
Area:   Early Excavations
Context:   Early Excavations, Provenance unknown
Bibliography:   Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 612
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b
Monument: Early Excavations
Image: bw 1869
Image: bw 2000 042 24