Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2915 | |
Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 2915 | |
Description: | Lamp with base ring,, straight flaring body, heavy mould joint, broad low sloping rim, square disk with sunken central fill hole, narrow channel with air hole, to wick hole, tapering nozzle. solid lug handle. | |
Decoration: | Bottom: 5 impressed circles arranged in a cross, circle on either side of handle base; rim: decoration confined to narrow band along disk: wavy lines ?, with 3 circles on either side of channel; disk: coarse rays; handle: herringbone on top, 2 grooves on bottom. | |
Material: | Semi-fine brown clay with common fine white lime inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Near 5YR 4/4 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Six joining frgts., complete except for underside of nozzle, and tip of top of nozzle. Faint burning on nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | L00.097 H00.040 (max) H00.030 (rim) W00.074 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Roman | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB136 P107 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 043 28 Basket: NB136 P107 Notebook Page: NB 136, spread 58 (pp. 106 - 107) |