Corinth Object: L 2870
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2870
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2870
Description:   Lamp with leaf-shaped flat bottom, deep straight flaring body, broad flat rim, concave disk surrounded by low ring, central fill hole, air hole incompletely pierced at base of nozzle, solid lug handle.
Decoration:   Bottom: plain ?, 2 grooves; rim: wavy lines; disk plain, lamp: 2 grooves on upper half, 1 on lower. Mould worn.
Material:   Semi-fine tan clay with frequent fine white, black and sparkling inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Between 5YR 5/6 and 7.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete profile, complete lamp except for half of left side of body, rim, nozzle, hole in disk. Burning around fill hole.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.041 (max) H00.030 (rim) W00.067
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.085
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB126 P17
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 038 12
Basket: NB126 P17
Notebook Page: NB 126, spread 13 (pp. 16 - 17)