Corinth Object: L 4866
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 4866
Title:   SIGNED LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   4866
Description:   Lamp with flat bottom, straight flaring body, broad rim slightly convex, shallow concave disk with two small fill holes, airhole at edge of disk, nozzle enclosed in body. Vertical, solid lug handle; mould joint not trimmed away, divides handle in two with two halves not quite aligned.
Decoration:   2 circumference rings around bottom. Rim: herringbone set well in from edge; disk: monogram: Chi-Rho; handle: band of horizontal lines on top half, two grooves on lower half.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed in mould on bottom: XIo/NHC
Material:   Moderately fine brown clay with sand-like black, white inclusions, some mica, some larger white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 5.5/6
Condition:   Complete or intact. Intact.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.040 (max) H00.028 (rim) L00.092 W00.068
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   2
Area:   Kraneion
Context:   Kraneion, Turned up in deep plowing to south and west of chu
Provenance:   Attica
Site:   Kraneion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Kraneion
Basket: Kraneion, Turned up in deep plowing to south and west of chu