Corinth Object: L 2914
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2914
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2914
Old Number:   Temp. No. 051
Description:   Lamp with concave small bottom, deep wide flaring body, broad flat rim, large concave disk with central fill hole, air hole at edge of disk, small wick hole, solid lug handle.
Decoration:   Rim: band of raised hatching between 2 rings; disk: raised rays quite irregularly done; handle: possibly single groove. Decoration carelessly rendered.
Material:   Semi-fine hard-fired light reddish-tan clay with rare fine to small white, red and black inclusions
Munsell Color:   Surface: roughly between 10YR 7/4 and 7.5YR 7/4 Core: between 7.5YR 5.5/5 and 5YR 5.5/5
Condition:   Complete profile. Five joining frgts., preserving complete profile, all of bottom, right half body, all of disk except small part, nearly all of rim, half of wick hole, all handle. Burning on nozzle.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.053(max) H00.037-00.034
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.103 W00.087
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB122 P107
Provenance:   Corinth ?
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 040 29a
Basket: NB122 P107
Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 58 (pp. 106 - 107)