Corinth Object: L 2833
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