Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2959 | |
Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 2959 | |
Description: | Lamp with leaf-shaped flat bottom, straight flaring body, flattened mould joing, broad flat rim, concave disk surrounded by 2 faint plastic rings, 3 fill holes in arms of cross excpet upper rt., air hole at edge of disk, projecting nozzle, large fill hole. Solid lug handle with smear at joint. | |
Decoration: | Bottom: branch with 2 framing grooves, small circle at tip, 2 flanking handle base. Rim: herringbone; disk: monogram with plain cross, Rho to rt. 2 grooves on handle to base. | |
Material: | Semi-fine gray-brown clay with fine white, black inclusions, at least 1 mica, sparkling inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 5/3 to 7.5YR 5/3 | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. Burning on nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | L00.093 H00.046 (max) H00.033 (rim) W00.067 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Context mid 7th c. A.C. | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB136 P162 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 041 19 Basket: NB136 P162 |