Corinth Object: L 3006
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 3006
Title:   LATE ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXIX
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   3006
Description:   Lamp with low base ring, squat body with flaring convex profile, slopiing rim, broad flat disk, surrounded by ring that forms narrow channel to nozzle, single off-center fill hole; nozzle articulated from body with round tip, small wick hole. Edge of lug handle, becoming rib below joint.
Decoration:   Rim: ring of dots; disk: cross-monogram, rho to lt.; in lower two angles broken-bar Alpha and Omega in relief. Red glaze over all.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed in mould on disk: cross-monogram with rho to rt., Alpha Omega in two angles
Material:   Fine tan clay with scattered white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Slightly darker than 7.5YR 7/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete lamp except 1/5 upper body, rim, edge of disk, upper half handle; complete profile. Extensive burning around nozzle.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.024 (rim) D00.063
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.090
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   4th century
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB122 P107
Provenance:   Attica ?
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Basket: NB122 P107
Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 58 (pp. 106 - 107)