KE 158 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 42
Typological identification
Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation North African
Typological identification comment
Regional (or Argive?) rather than Corinthian based on factors or material, manufacturing, and motif?
Comparanda
sim. Koutoussaki2008, p. 364, no. 645.1a, pl. LXII, fig. 491 (Thermes, Argos)
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fabric: brownish red but fired more pale brown at surface; numerous tiny, sharp white bits and rare, medium, subangular white calcitic chunks, fine granular fracture but platy at surface. Could be Corinthian or Argive? Firing: consistently hard. Surface: smoothed shoulder and wall. Straight, rounded lateral seam.
Preservation comment
One sherd preserves ca. 25% of right top part of lamp, including discus and shoulder down to lateral edge of wickhole and small part of wall. Very slight, sparse abrasion and pitting; mostly clean breaks; very rare specks of encrustation.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 83, no. 443 (H. Williams)
Estimated discus diameter
0.046
Preserved length
0.076
Preserved width
0.041
Weight (kg)
0.022
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Pagescan
Photograph
Suggested citation
“KE 158 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0158>