| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 227 | |
| Title: | LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 227 | |
| Old Number: | Former MF-4 from regular series numbering. | |
| Description: | Lamp with wide flaring body, pared shoulder, broad low sloping rim with panels, flat band framing shallow concave disk with off center fill hole at ca. 4:00; scar of handle at break. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: impressed tongues; disk: in low relief, gladitorial combat; retiarius at rt., standing with legs apart, holding dagger in bent lt. hand, galerus on lt. shoulder. Fill hole between legs. Plaster mould bubbles. | |
| Material: | Fine clay fired light tan out to light pink in, with rare sparkling and lime inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Roughly between 10YR 7/4 and 7.5YR 7/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. single frgt, preserving nearly half lamp from above bottom through center of disk; broken at edge of handle; nozzle not preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.025, L. 0.086 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.09 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd-3rd c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance unknown: "5 ?" in FIB | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | From 1908 dump E of excavations, April 6, 1914. | |
| Bibliography: | Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 636 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 2000 041 22a Basket: Early Excavations, Provenance unknown: "5 ?" in FIB Notebook Page: NB 72, spread 14 (pp. 18 - 19) |
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