| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2708 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2708 | |
| Old Number: | Temp. No. 0104 | |
| Description: | Lamp with flat oval bottom, deep straight flaring body, broad flat rim, shallow concave disk surrounded by raised ring, 4 small fill holes - 1 in center, 3 around it, air hole at base of nozzle, nozzle offset by pairs of incised lines, nozzle continuous with sides. Solid vertical lug handle, back smeared at mould seam. | |
| Decoration: | 2 grooves surrounded bottom with 1 circle at nozzle end, 2 flanking handle. Rim: herringbone; disk: plain. 2 grooves on handle to base. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed on bottom in Greek: KY (K ?) | |
| Material: | Fine tan clay with few white inclusions and mica or sparkling ones. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 6/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. complete and intact except for nozzle; burning around nozzle and on lt. side. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.088 H00.049 (max) H00.036 (rim) W00.068 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P184 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 035 31 Basket: NB122 P184 |
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