| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2744 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII: VINE-TENDRIL | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2744 | |
| Description: | Lamp with low base ring and flat bottom, deep echinoid body, broad flat rim, shallow concave disk surrounded by 2 thin raised rings, 3 fill holes: 1 at mid rt. side, 1 at base of nozzle, 1 to lt. of center; solid lug handle interrupted by mould seam. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: grape-vine, perhaps interrupted by panels. disk: Eros standing to rt., head turned back ?, arms extended, unintelligible objects beside feet. | |
| Mythology: | Eros | |
| Attributes: | Wings | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay with no visible inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete profile, complete except for half bottom and lower part of right half of body, nozzle. Traces of burning on rim; surface partly blackened. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.042 (max) H00.031 (rim) W00.069 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.082 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | first half 3rd c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB126 P27 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 036 12 Basket: NB126 P27 Notebook Page: NB 126, spread 18 (pp. 26 - 27) |
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