- KE 162 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 46
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp, red-on-white
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, p. 86, no. 163, pl. 6 (but with ovules; J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- cf. GerousiBendermacher, p. 41, no. 12 (Perissa, Thera; dated end 1st-beginning 2nd cs. CE)
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- cf. SamosXX, p. 20, no. 35, pl. 3 (but with ovules; M. Weber)
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- same motif, eastern lamp: BMLIII, p. 70, 363, no. Q 2982, fig. 88, pl. 96 (from Knidos; D. M. Bailey)
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- same motif, eastern lamp: CatlingCatling1992, p. 287, no. L395, pls. 240, 250 (Unexplored Mansion, Knossos)
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- same motif, eastern lamp: GoldmanJones1950, p. 119, nos. 252-261 (Tarsus)
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- same motif, eastern lamp: Hayes1980, pp. 73, 195, no. 301, pl. 37 (ROM; from Tarsus)
- Comparanda
- same motif, eastern lamp: Hayes1980, pp. 73, 195, no. 301, pl. 37 (ROM; from Tarsus) same motif, eastern lamp: BMLII, pp. 75-76, 228, no. Q 1085, fig. 81, pl. 37 (from Ephesus or Cyrenaica?; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- same motif, eastern lamp: Martin1997, pp. 272, 273, no. 25, fig. 42:a (Gortyn)
- Comparanda
- same motif, eastern lamp: Mercando1974, p. 237, no. 40, pl. XXXVI:8, 12 (Cretan product?; Heraklion Museum)
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- same motif, western lamp: Behrens1920, p. 117, pl. 19:30 (Städtische Altertumssammlung, Bingen; eastern product?)
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- same motif, western lamp: Bemont2003, p. 92, no. 215, pl. 20 (Glanum)
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- same motif, western lamp: BemontChew2007, pp. 122, 351, 511, décor 108, no. AS 16, pl. 86 (Musée d’archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Cilician product?)
- Comparanda
- same motif, western lamp: BernaboBreaCavalier1965, pp. 44, 340, no. 64, tomba 118, pl. CCXXIX:10 (Melingunìs Lipára)
- Comparanda
- same motif, western lamp: Deneauve1969, p. 140, no. 503 (Carthage)
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- same motif, western lamp: Evelein1928, p. 12, no. 50, pl. II (Museum Kam)
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- same motif, western lamp: GoethertPolaschek1985, pp. 62-63, 253, no. 219, pl. 38 (Motiv 177; Rheinisches Museum, Trier)
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- same motif, western lamp: Ivanyi1935, pp. 49, 114, nos. 181, 1116, pls. VIII:2, XLV:3 (from Belgrade and Siscia [Sisak])
- Comparanda
- same motif, western lamp: Leibundgut1977, pp. 180-181, no. 296, pl. 78 (Augst)
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- same motif, western lamp: Lerat1954, p. 21, no. 131, pl. 16 (Besançon)
- Comparanda
- same motif, western lamp: Liesen1994, pp. 32-33, no. 81 (Asberg [Asciburgium])
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- same motif, western lamp: Loeschcke1911, p. 93, no. 1786, pl. 83 (Sammlung Niessen)
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- same motif, western lamp: Loeschcke1919, p. 380, nos. 256-266. Pl. XIII:501 (Vindonissa)
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- same motif, western lamp: Menzel1969, pp. 33, 34, 41, 44, nos. 138, 195, figs. 28:6, 32:13 (RGZM; latter from Miletus)
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- same motif, western lamp: Ritterling1913, pl. 29:7 (Hofheim)
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- same motif, western lamp: Rivet2003, p. 67, no. 147 (Golfe du Fos)
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- same motif, western lamp: Vegas1966, p. 96, nos. 91, 103, pl. 8 (Novaesium [Neuss])
- Comparanda
- same motif, western lamp: Waldhauer1914, pp. 53, 57, nos. 370, 419, pls. 37, 41
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (dark pink-pale red; somewhat gritty; rare, subangular, calcarous chunks; micaceous); firing (even); and surface treatment (thin white undercoat; even, thin, semilustrous, orangish red slip).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 35% of top of lamp, including discus, left side to back shoulder, most of handle, and adjacent wall. Extensive, slight to moderate abrasion and rare minor chipping; worn breaks; thick chunks of encrustation in grooves.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 32, no. 141, pl. 7 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.068
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.051
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.034
- Preserved height
- 0.034e0
- Preserved length
- 0.0682
- Preserved width
- 0.0511
- Weight (kg)
- 0.02
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Deer (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 162 (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/ke/ke0162>
