| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2931 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2931 | |
| Old Number: | L-XXXX-2714d (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Lamp with flat leaf-shaped bottom, 2 grooves; deep straight-flaring lopsided body, heavy mould joint, broad flat rim, groove around very shallow small disk with 2 fill holes on a diagonal; shallow broad channel with air hole, to small wick hole tapering nozzle, solid lug handle. | |
| Decoration: | Bottom: incised branch; rim: wavy lines with a kind of dotted line framing channel; disk: monogram with rho rt., cross has flaring tips, impressed circle in center. Handle: 2 grooves to bottom, groups of concentric arcs incised at bottom. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. ? Unintelligible letter to either side of branch on bottom: to lt., vertical stroke and poss. 2nd letter; to r. upside down V. | |
| Material: | Semi-fine light red-brown clay with few fine white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact; faint burning along wick hole. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.098 H00.046 (max) H00.01-00.034 (rim)W00.071 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB136 P140 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 035 21 Basket: NB136 P140 |
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