Corinth Object: L 2925
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