KL128 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Technique
Slight joining ridge and webbing. Details are blurry from worn mold.
Writing transcription
ΧΙΟ|ΝΗϹ
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
Typological identification
Signature, mark, or legend (lamp)
Cited by
KorkaRife2018, pp. 619–620, 626, fig. 6
Comparanda
sim. KL261
Comparanda
sim. AgoraVII, p. 180, no. 2482, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig; base with incised palm branch)
Comparanda
sim. KenchreaiV, p. 62, no. 312, pl. 14
Description
Tear-shaped outline. Tear-shaped, concave discus with raised rim has relief of cross monogram with rho open right and flaring, crosshatched arms; four holes in quadrants and airhole at bottom. Wide channel from discus to wickhole, tapered at top. Irregular, slightly sloping and slightly rounded shoulder has narrow herringbone in low relief. Long, rounded nozzle has rim around wickhole; traces of burning. Thick, partly pierced handle has two grooves; lower handle has flanking grooves. Slightly concave base has double almond-shaped grooves with single circles at top and bottom around incuse signature: ΧΙΟ|ΝΗϹ.
Fabric, firing, surface
7.5YR 6/6, reddish yellow with buff surface. Soft, fine fabric with rare, very small, subrounded to occasionally angular, white and dark (gray) inclusions. Unglazed. Attic.
Preservation description
Intact. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion, with pitting and scoring; thin encrustation.
Published as
Rife2022d, pp. 862-863, no. 405, fig. 19.34
Discus length
0.042
Discus width
0.043
Handle total height
0.048
Height base to shoulder
0.032
Height shoulder to handle
0.016
Length
0.103
Base Length
0.055
Width
0.064
Base Width
0.04
Chronology comment
Mid-late 5th century
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Drawing
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph