Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2657 | |
Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 2657 | |
Description: | Lamp with concave bottom, straight flaring body, broad low-sloping rim, concave disk framed by groove, 2 fill holes on vertical axis, tapering nozzle, solid lug handle. | |
Decoration: | Rim: unintelligible; disk: gladitorial scene with retiarius at lt. bent in profile to rt., rt. arm down; at lt. armored gladiator, obscure. For type see L-XXXX-2654. | |
Material: | Coarse red clay fired brown at surface with common fine white inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Core: near 5YR 5/4; surface: no good match | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Intact except for hole in bottom; heavily encrusted. Burning on nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | L00.090 H00.041 (max) H00.029 (rim) D00.073 | |
Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
Chronology: | 3rd c. ? | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB136 P107 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 039 03 Basket: NB136 P107 |