- KL053 (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
- Description
- Circular, concave discus has filling hole lower left, figural relief, and two, rounded framing rings. Relief shows facing eagle with folded wings, head turned to left on two-step podium. Later generation within type series? Round shoulder has small ovules and one double circles at either side of nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle. Slightly raised, circular, plain base. Small hole pierced(?) in back wall just above base.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 5YR 7/7, reddish yellow. Slip: 5YR 5/6, yellowish red. Fine, somewhat soft fabric with very rare, very small, subrounded, dark red to black inclusions and very slightly, faintly micaceous. Semilustrous, somewhat thick, somewhat uneven slip across discus and shoulder that is flaking in small pieces. Cf. KL054.
- Preservation comment
- Intact except nozzle. Slight, extensive abrasion and slight gouging; slight to moderate, extensive encrustation.
- Base Diameter
- 0.035
- Discus diameter
- 0.05
- Height base to handle
- 0.046
- Height base to shoulder
- 0.027
- Height shoulder to handle
- 0.019
- Preserved length
- 0.068
- Weight (kg)
- 0.029
- Width
- 0.069
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Eagle (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KL053 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kl053>
