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 |