Corinth Object: L 2958
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2958
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2958
Description:   Lamp with leaf-shaped flat bottom, straight flaring body, broad flat rim, concave disk surrounded by plastic ring, 2 fill holes set on horizontal line, channel to nozzle with air hole. Vertical lug handle.
Decoration:   Bottom: branch, 2 framing grooves; rim: herring-bone; disk: monogram as Broneer fig. 52.8 but with one larger set of concentric circles at central crossing.
Material:   Fine gray-brown clay with tiny white and sparkling inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Roughly between 10YR 5/4 and 7.5YR 5/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., complete except for end of nozzle, top half of handle. Burning on nozzle.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.029 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.093
Dimensions Restored:   W00.062
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB126 P27
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 041 20
Basket: NB126 P27
Notebook Page: NB 126, spread 18 (pp. 26 - 27)