Corinth Object: L 2929
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2929
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2929
Old Number:   L-XXXX-2714B (lapsed)
Description:   Lamp with flat bottom, 2 grooves, echoinoid body, broad flat rim, ring framing concave disk and broad channel to wick hole, central fill hole with 3 smaller fill holes around it, air hole in channel, large wick hole in tapering nozzle. Solid lug handle.
Decoration:   Bottom: unintelligible incised motif; rim: herringbone. disk: plain; Handle: 2 grooves on top, 1 on bottom with incision on either side of handle.
Material:   Semi-fine brown clay with some fine to small white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Near 7.5YR 5/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., complete except for 3/5 bottom, nearly all of lt. side, underside of nozzle. Burning on wick hole.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   L00.091 H00.041 (max) H00.029 (rim)
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   Asklepieion, Provenance unknown
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 041 10