KL215 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)

Comparanda

sim. IsthmiaIII, p. 78, no. 3036, pl. 34 (O. Broneer; southeast Temenos)

Comparanda

sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 280, nos. 4512, 4513, pl. 76 (B. Böttger; second–third quarter 5th century[?])

Comparanda

sim. Koutsoussaki2008, p. 259, no. 365.2, fig. 335, pl. XLIII (Argos, second half 4th–beginning 5th century)

Description

Oval to almond-shaped body. Circular, shallow discus has central filling hole with rim, small hole lower left, rosette with 16(?) concave, pointed petals, airhole at bottom, and narrow, rounded framing ring. Sloping shoulder has herringbone in low relief. Rounded nozzle framed by single angled grooves has narrow channel to wickhole flanked by single circles; traces of burning.

Fabric, firing, surface

2.5YR 6/6, light red. Somewhat hard, somewhat gritty fabric. Unglazed. Sparse, large clay nodules.

Preservation comment

One fragment preserves roughly one-quarter of discus and shoulder and small part of nozzle. Sparse encrustation.

Published as

Rife2022d, pp. 874-875, no. 429, fig. 19.39

Maximum preserved dimension

0.042

Chronology comment

Dated mid- to late 5th century

Material

Ceramic (Material)

Drawing

Photograph