- KL025 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp, Pergamene
- 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 with smooth break; very rare, very small, rounded white (calcareous) inclusions. Semilustrous, thick, even slip on exterior and upper interior. Brushed smooth.
- 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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- Photograph
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“KL025 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2023. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kl025>
