| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2735 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII, GLAZED | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2735 | |
| Description: | Lamp with flat bottom, deep convex body, broad rim rising slightly to shallow concave disk with raised framing ring, groove, central fill hole; air hole at base of nozzle, which is U-shaped, large wick hole. Solid lug handle, back partly smeared in mould. | |
| Decoration: | Bottom: groove around bottom; rim: plain except for small impressed circle by nozzle, groove setting off nozzle from rim, disk: quatrefoil with petals alternating with T-shaped lines. 2 grooves on handle to base; thin glaze over all. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed on bottom in Greek: CT. (O) ? | |
| Material: | Hard-fired dark red-brown clay with streak of black at core, fine white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 4/4 clay; 5YR 4/3 glaze | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., left half of lamp. Burning on nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.043 (max) H00.033 (rim) L00.102 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | W00.072 (max) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman, context mid 7th c. | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB136 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 035 28 Basket: NB136 |
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