Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2833 | |
Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 2833 | |
Description: | Lamp with flaring body, somewhat carelessly smoothed mould joint, broad sloping rim, plastic ring framing deep concave disk with central fill hole and at least 2 small ones to side. Lug handle, partly pierced. | |
Decoration: | Rim: coarsely impressed grape vine; disk: rosette with round tips; handle: 2 grooves on back. Work coarse, mould faulty. | |
Material: | Semi-fine pinkish-tan clay with frequent fine sparkling inclusions, rare fine white ones. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving 3/4 of top of lamp, lower half of handle, small part of body. Missing right front half to nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.084 H00.030 | |
Dimensions Restored: | W00.074 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Roman | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | Asklepieion, Provenance unknown, found 1932 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 037 27 Basket: Asklepieion, Provenance unknown, found 1932 |