- KL285 (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, Knidian
- Description
- Large, circular nozzle has semivolutes; underside somes to ridge near base. Circular base has wide, flat base ring and slightly concave bottom with incuse planta pedis (right foot), sharply rendered, oriented on medial axis with big toe pointing toward nozzle.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 7.5YR 7/4, pink. Slip: 5YR 4/4, reddish brown. Hard, fine fabric has very rare, very small, subrounded(?), white and black inclusions and uncommon, very small flecks of golden mica. Somewhat thin, semilustrous slip with metallic sheen spread evenly but fading out on underside toward nozzle.
- Preservation comment
- Two nonjoining sherds preserve small part of nozzle and wall (fr. a) and roughly one third of base and front wall below seam (fr. b). Sparse specks of encrustation around nozzle.
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.045
- Weight (kg)
- 0.012
- Other Dimensions
- Fr a: max.p.dim. 0.03
- Other Dimensions
- Fr b: p.L. 0.052, p.W. 0.035
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KL285 (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/kl285>
