- KE 26 (Middle Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 4
- Typological identification
- Middle Roman Athenian Lamp, copy Corinthian
- Typological identification comment
- Corinthian fabric, but perhaps copying Athenian adaptation of B27B (proportions, grapevine, handle grooves)?
- Comparanda
- sim. IsthmiaX, p. 91, no. 114, figs. 2, 4, pl. 14 (rim Type 3; B. L. Wohl)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Corinthian Early-Middle Roman lamp fabric: pale buff, fine, somewhat hard; rare, isolated lime chunks; very rare gold micaceous sparkles; finely smoothed surface.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves back left part of lamp, including part of discus and shoulder and upper handle. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion with minor chipping and gouging; worn breaks; extensive, gritty film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 45, no. 177 (H. Williams; identified as Corinthian B27)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.08
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.052
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.0436
- Preserved length
- 0.069
- Preserved width
- 0.0548
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0163
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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