Corinth Object: L 3837
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 3837
Title:   LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   3837
Description:   Almond-shaped lamp with flat bottom, deep and steep body, broad rounded rim with heavy ridge at mould juncture, concave disk with central fill hole, unpierced air hole at base of short nozzle with large wick hole. Solid vertical lug handle.
Decoration:   Bottom: incised cross with filling of small circles, 2 grooves. rim: herringbone, disk: shell pattern, 2 grooves on handle, 3 on lower half. Red slip.
Material:   Hard-fired red clay with frequent tiny white inclusions.
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., complete except for ca. 1/2 of one side of body. Heavy burning around nozzle.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.052 L00.082
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB197 P145
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 009 09
Basket: NB197 P145
Notebook Page: NB 197, spread 77 (pp. 144 - 145)