Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2909 | |
Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 2909 | |
Description: | Lamp with small flat bottom offset by deep groove, very deep straight flaring body, pared joint, broad low-sloping rim, groove framing deep concave disk with one larger central fill hole surrounded by ring, 4 smaller ones in circumference, pierced lug handle. | |
Decoration: | Bottom: 5 impressed dotted circles forming a cross; rim: wavy lines; disk: plain; handle: 2 deep grooves to bottom. | |
Material: | Hard-fired semi-fine gray-brown clay with frequent sparkling and few fine white inclusions, some voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Ca. 7.5YR 6/3 and darker | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile, slightly over half of lamp from edge of disk through handle; burning on disk and rim towards nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.041 (max) H00.036 (rim) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.075 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Roman | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown, 1932 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 040 26a Basket: Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown, 1932 |