Corinth Object: L 2961
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2961
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2961
Old Number:   Temp. No. 049
Description:   Flat bottom, steep straight body, sloping rim, concave disk with plastic framing ring, 4 fill holes in all arms of cross, air hole at base of cross. Small wick hole. Solid lug handle with knob at mould seam.
Decoration:   Bottom: a branch with 2nd branch (?) set at rt. angles to it, double framing grooves. Rim: herringbone; disk: monogram with hatched cross, rho to rt. Handle: 2 grooves to base with incised line to either side of lower half.
Material:   Semi-fine light brown clay with few small white inclusions and mica.
Munsell Color:   10YR 6/4 and darker
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile; complete bottom, over half body, half rim and disk, nozzle, but missing tip; complete handle. No burning as preserved.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.036 (max) H00.028 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.082
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown. 1931 ? Temp. no. 049
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 041 21
Basket: Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown. 1931 ? Temp. no. 049