Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2925 | |
Title: | ROMAN LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 2925 | |
Description: | Lap with broad sloping convex rim, projecting ring surrounding flat disk with central fill hole. Breaking through ring is channel dividing two projecting tangs, one of which only pierced. | |
Decoration: | Rim: carefully modeled in high relief: cluster of grapes and curling grape vine. | |
Material: | Fine clay fired buff out, pink in, with frequent fine voids, fewer fine red, sparkling inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Exterior: slightly redder than 10YR 7.5/4 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving ca. 1/4 rim but not full profile, half disk and fill hole. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.037 (ring around disk) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | MPDim00.092 | |
Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
Chronology: | 1? 2nd c. A.C. ? | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown, 1931 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 040 13a Basket: Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown, 1931 |