| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2952 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2952 | |
| Description: | Leaf-shaped lamp with flat bottom, no grooves, shallow straight flaring body, heavy mould joint, broad rounded rim, square concave disk surrounded by ridge, continuing into broad channel to wick hole; lug handle. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: indistinct, herringbone ? disk: cross with fill hole in center. | |
| Material: | Dark red-brown semi-fine clay with mica, fine white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 5YR 4/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Intact except for right edge of rim and nozzle, top of handle; lamp badly worn. Burning on front third of lamp. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.074 H00.025 (rim) W00.055 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB126 P83 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 041 28 Basket: NB126 P83 Notebook Page: NB 126, spread 46 (pp. 82 - 83) |
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