| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2936 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2936 | |
| Old Number: | L-XXXX-2726d (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Lamp with leaf-shaped flat bottom, nearly vertical body, heavy mould joint, angular shoulder, flat rim, square concave disk with central fill hole, channel and air hole to large wick hole, tapered nozzle, solid lug handle. | |
| Decoration: | Bottom: incised branch, 2 grooves; rim: herringbone, circles framing channel; disk: groove framing it, cross with impressed circles in arms, as Broneer fig. 52.1; handle: single groove to bottom with 2 impressed circles at base. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Faintly inscribed on bottom, Greek: lunate sigma | |
| Material: | Semi-fine red-brown clay with frequent fine white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/5 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. Faint burning on nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.087 H00.039 (max) H00.030 (rim) W00.058 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB136 P162 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 041 03 Basket: NB136 P162 |
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