- KE 288 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more 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 154
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Form: Broneer Type XXI=Bailey Type D group ii (Augustan-Neronian)
- Comparanda
- cf. BMLII, pp. 204, 205, no. Q 999, pls. 28, 35 (D. M. Bailey; “said to be“ from Pozzuoli; dated first third of 1st century CE)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (slightly yellowish), firing, and surface treatment (mottled, orangish to pale reddish brown, somewhat uneven). Finger marks on clay.
- Preservation comment
- Four joining sherds preserve 80% of discus and adjacent shoulder, back left nozzle, ca. 35% of back left base and adjacent walls, and lower attachment of handle; missing handle ornament. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion; crazing to flaking slip; mostly clean breaks; rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 20, no. 78 (H. Williams)
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.0335
- Body diameter
- 0.064
- Height
- 0.024
- Preserved length
- 0.0785
- Weight (kg)
- 0.026
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 288 (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/ke/ke0288>
