Corinth Object: L 2955
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2955
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2955
Description:   Lamp with top of straight flaring body, pronounced mould joint, flat shoudler, flat rim, concave square disk framed by 2 grooves, 3 fill holes, broad channel without air hole to edge of wick hole. Solid lug handle.
Decoration:   Rim: triangular panels framing handle, indistinct; herringbone framing disk, concentric arcs framing channel; disk: cross with incised outlines.
Material:   Semi-fine brown clay with frequent fine white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Slightly redder than 7.5YR 5/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving most of top of lamp except for nozzle and most of wick hole, edge of rim along lt. side; trace of burning on wick hole.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   W00.062
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.028 L00.073
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   Asklepieion, Provenance unknown, 1933
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 041 12
Basket: Asklepieion, Provenance unknown, 1933