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 |