- KE 404 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area B (northwest side of harbor)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 92
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typus IV (with handle)=Broneer Type XXIII=Bailey Type B Group iv/v (Claudian-Trajanic)
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke Schulterform VI b
- Comparanda
- Cf. BMLII, pp. 51-52, 178-179, no. Q 938, fig. 55, pl. 18 (Pompeii[?], ca. third quarter 1st century A.D.; D. M. Bailey)
- Description
- Note unusual handle: appears to be applied loop (cf. earlier), not full ring handle attaching at discus rim (later).
- Description
- Type of gladiatorial prize-fighters Furius and Columbus.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (fine, pinkish, micaceous), firing, and surface treatment (thin, mottled orangish red slip). Large irregular red chunk (iron oxide?) breaking out of front upper left wall.
- Preservation comment
- Most of lamp survives but missing part of central to back discus, top of handle, and front of nozzle. Moderate, extensive pitting, abrasion, and scratching; worn breaks; frequent patches of sandy accretion or mortar(?).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 19, no. 71, pl. 3 (H. Williams)
- Body diameter
- 0.052
- Body diameter
- 0.0928
- Discus diameter
- 0.079
- Preserved length
- 0.1064
- Weight (kg)
- 0.074
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.035
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Gladiator (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 404 (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/ke0404>
