- KL025 (Early-Middle Roman Corinthian Transitional Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Early Roman Corinthian Lamp, Transitional
- Description
- Circular discus with filling hole below middle, figural relief, and framing groove. Relief shows Pegasus advancing left with wings open upward, left forelimb straight, and right forelimb flexed upward. Sloping, plain shoulder. Tall ring handle with two grooves in front attaches at discus rim and halfway down back wall.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 5YR 8/4, pink. Slip: 2.5YR 5/8, red. Very fine, hard fabric; smooth break; very rare, small, rounded lime specks; rare golden micacesous bits. Semilustrous, somewhat thick, even slip on exterior and upper interior. Brushed smooth. Over all very finely made. Cf. Corinthian sigillata.
- Preservation comment
- Four joining sherds preserve two thirds of discus and shoulder, entire handle, and back wall. Very slight, sparse chipping around edges; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.064
- Discus diameter
- 0.047
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.039
- Preserved length
- 0.068
- Preserved width
- 0.063
- Weight (kg)
- 0.028
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Mythological Animal (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KL025 (Early-Middle Roman Corinthian Transitional Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kl025>
