| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2953 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2953 | |
| Description: | Leaf-shaped lamp with flat bottom, flaring body, rounded to angular shoulder, flat rim, ring framing concave square disk with central fill hole, channel with air hole, wick hole off-center. solid lug handle. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: indistinct; disk: possibly a cross largely pierced by fill hole. | |
| Material: | Semi-fine clay with frequent fine and rare small white and red inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 5YR 4/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving all of lamp except small part of bottom, nozzle and part of rim; complete profile. Surface flaking; top of handle broken away. Burning on wick hole edge. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.023 (rim) W00.051 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.070 H00.033 (max) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB126 P31 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 041 14 Basket: NB126 P31 |
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