- KE 80 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area C (north end of harbor, including mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 17
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typus V=Broneer Type XXIV=Bailey Type C group iv (Flavian-Trajanic; BMLII, pp. 191-195)
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke Typus VII a
- Comparanda
- Format and material cf. BussiereWohl2017 no. 253 (Getty Lamps on-line; identified as North African(?))
- Description
- Circular format. Circular, concave discus surrounded by three grooves with uncertain relief (traces); leopard leaping to left? Wide, rounded, plain shoulder. Semivolute nozzle. Flat, raised, plain base.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Very pale brown fabric with a tinge of yellow, consistently fired; hard, fine, smooth breaking; uncommon, poorly sorted, tiny black bits and fewer white (calcareous?); no mica. Thin but uneven, brown slip with a tinge of orange, mottled with variable firing in clouds, semilustrous. Italian.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 40% of left shoulder to base of left volute and ca. 45% of base with contiguous wall. Slight, moderate abrasion and rare pitting; worn breaks; specks to small, thin patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 23, no. 115 (H. Williams)
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.045
- Discus diameter
- 0.07
- Preserved length
- 0.099
- Preserved width
- 0.039
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.0322
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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