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) |