Corinth Object: L 2816
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2816
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2816
Old Number:   L-XXXX-2714A 015
Description:   Lamp with flat bottom, echinoid body, flat rim, start of concave disk. Partly pierced lug handle.
Decoration:   Bottom: 2 grooves; rim: row of impressed circles, groove surrounding disk. Handle: 3 grooves on upper half, 1 on lower, with groove on other side of handle.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed on bottom, Greek: K Y on either side of branch
Material:   Hard-fired semi-fine red-brown clay with few small white inclusions, fracture smooth.
Munsell Color:   slightly redder than 7.5YR 5/5
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., 3/4 bottom, body, 1/4 rim, edge of disk, handle.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.041 (max) H00.029 (rim) W00.066
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.068
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB122
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 037 15
Basket: NB122
Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 57 (pp. 104 - 105)