| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2986 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2986 | |
| Description: | Lamp with small flat heart-shaped bottom with 2 grooves, echinoid body, flat rim, ring around concave disk, air hole at base of nozzle, nozzle enclosed in body, large wick hole, solid lug handle. | |
| Decoration: | Bottom: inscribed cross ? with cross lines at tip of arm. Rim: vine and cluster with 3 leaves and 2 clusters; clusters have lost all detail. disk: rays. Handle: 2 grooves on top, 1 on bottom. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay, considerably discolored to gray with at least 1 large piece of mica. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 6/3 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Two joining frgts., preserving complete profile except for disk. Missing upper body on left side, nearly all of disk, Heavily burned on nozzle, additional blackening over most of top and right side. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.082 H00.045 H00.027-00.031 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P28 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Basket: NB122 P28 Notebook Page: NB 126, spread 19 (pp. 28 - 29) |
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