- KL301 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Description
- Circular, slightly concave, raised based with single groove around incuse planta pedis (right foot pointing toward nozzle), which is very narrow and indistinct.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 5YR 8/4, pink. Slip: 7.5YR 4/6 to 5/6, strong brown. Fine, hard fabric, variable firing, has rare, very small, subrounded, white and black inclusions. Somewhat thick, semilustrous, uneven slip is mottled, detaching in flakes, and crazing; traces of a faint metallic sheen. For quality of fabric, firing, and surface, cf. IsthmiaX, p. 77, no. 26, pl. 5 (B. L. Wohl).
- Preservation comment
- Four joining fragments preserve roughly two thirds of base and small part of right wall and rim. Slight, sparse chipping.
- Base Diameter
- 0.043
- Preserved length
- 0.066
- Preserved width
- 0.061
- Weight (kg)
- 0.011
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KL301 (Early Roman Italian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kl301>
