Corinth Object: L 2894b
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2894b
Title:   LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2894
Object Suffix:   b
Description:   Small, almond-shaped lamp with flat bottom, straight flaring body, raised rim, concave disk, surrounded by ring, with central small fill hole. Large wick hole. Solid vertical lug handle, lower half becoming rib to bottom.
Decoration:   Rim: ring of pointed leaf alternating with dots; disk: fine rays. Rim decoration set in from edge, leaving smooth band around left half of circumference.
Material:   Fine red-brown clay with scattered fine white, sparkling inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   Near 5YR 5/7
Condition:   Complete or intact. Intact, but surface partly spalded along right side, joint. Burning on nozzle.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.037 (max) H00.027 L00.069 D00.052
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB136 P162
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 037 10
Basket: NB136 P162
Notebook Page: NB 126, spread 70 (pp. 130 - 131)