- KE 444 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- ROMANEƧIƧ
- Logical part of
- Area D (northeast side of harbor)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 104
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp, Knidian
- Cited by
- Hawthorne1965, pp. 199-200
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: Gotha, Schloßmuseum no. ALr7 purchased in Istanbul (cited at Heres1972, p. 26, no. 71)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: AlvarezOssorio1942, pp. 280-281, no. 4-13.506, fig. 2:4 (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: BMLIII, pp. 43, 226, no. Q 1073, fig. 47, pl. 37 (D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: BussiereWohl2017, Getty lamps on-line no. 211 (North African product?)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: DelosXXVI, p. 128, nos. 4604, 4605, pl. 30 (P. Bruneau)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: Hubinger1993, p. 73, no. 124, pl. 15 (Universität Bonn; from Rome)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: LABNI, pp. 16-17, no. 13 (Collection Froehner; from Cyprus; M.-C. Hellmann)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: SchaferMarczoch1990, p. 41, no. 36 (Archäologisches Museum, Frankfurt; from Egypt)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: cf. Waldhauer1914, p. 40, no. 216, pl. XXI (crisp molding; Hermitage; from southern Russia)
- Comparanda
- Sim. signature: Heres1968, pp. 196, 207, no. 109, fig. 1, pl. 28.1-2 (discus has grapevine wreath; Staatliche Musee zu Berlin; purchased in southern Russia)
- Description
- Type of portrait of Hadrian right with scepter.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale orange fabric with a tinge of pink; hard, slightly gritty; slightly granular break; tiny, uncommon to common, poorly sorted, rounded and subrounded, lime, dark gray, and rare black bits; rarely golden micaceous? Semilustrous glaze of variable thickness over exterior, dark orange but mottled from variable firing.
- Preservation comment
- Intact but missing front of nozzle. Slight, extensive abrasion and scoring around edges; worn breaks; small bits of encrustation in grooves.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 29, no. 137, pls. 6, 23 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.043
- Body diameter
- 0.0772
- Discus diameter
- 0.0614
- Height
- 0.0274
- Preserved length
- 0.0888
- Weight (kg)
- 0.067
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Hadrian (117-138)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 444 (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/ke0444>
