Corinth Object: L 2862
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2862
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2862
Description:   Lamp with flat leaf-shaped bottom, convex nearly vertical body, broad flat rim, shallow concave disk with 4 fill holes, broad channel to wick hole, with air hole at base of wick hole. Solid lug handle, top pared down to a triangle.
Decoration:   Bottom: incised branch with impressed circle to either side, double incised outline, impressed circle on either side of handle and below nozzle. Rim: wavy lines, disk plain.
Material:   Semi-fine light reddish-yellow clay with with few fine and rare medium white lime inclusions.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Intact except for hole in bottom and 2nd in right side. No burning.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   L00.097 H00.050 (max) H00.031-00.0305 (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 037 07
Basket: NB122 P184