| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2902 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2902 | |
| Description: | Lamp with straight flaring body, broad flat rim, 1-2 grooves framing very shallow concave disk with 2 fill holes; large wick hole impinging on edge of disk, tapering nozzle. Solid lug handle. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: wavy lines; disk: quadruped to lt., tail extended. Handle: 3 grooves on top of handle. | |
| Material: | Fine red-orange clay, fired to tan at surface with few fine white lime inclusions, common sparkling ones. | |
| Munsell Color: | Core: 5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving entire top of lamp, small part of right side. Burning on nozzle. Lamp worn, surface flaking. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.079 W00.058 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.021 (rim) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB136 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 040 16a Basket: NB136 |
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