KE 444 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Writing transcription
ROMANEƧIƧ
Logical part of
Area D
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 104
Typological identification
Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp, Knidian
Bibliography
J. G. Hawthorne, “Cenchreae, Port of Corinth,“ Archaeology 18 (1965), pp. 199-200; Kenchreai V, p. 29, no. 137, pls. 6, 23 (H. Williams).
Comparanda
Discus motif: cf. Waldhauer 1914, p. 40, no. 216, pl. XXI (crisp molding; from southern Russia, at Hermitage); Alvarez-Ossorio 1942, pp. 280-281, no. 4-13.506, fig. 2:4 (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid); Délos XXVI, p. 128, nos. 4604, 4605, pl. 30 (P. Bruneau); Gotha, Schloßmuseum no. ALr7 purchased in Istanbul (cited at Heres 1972, p. 26, no. 71); BML III, pp. 43, 226, no. Q 1073, fig. 47, pl. 37 (D. M. Bailey); LABN I, pp. 16-17, no. 13 (Collection Froehner; from Cyprus; M.-C. Hellmann); Schäfer and Marczoch 1990, p. 41, no. 36 (Archäologisches Museum, Frankfurt; from Egypt); Hübinger 1993, p. 73, no. 124, pl. 15 (Universität Bonn; from Rome); Bussière and Wohl 2017, Getty lamps on-line no. 211 (North African product?).
Comparanda
Signature: sim. Heres 1968, 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.
Preservation comment
Intact but missing front half of nozzle. Slight, very sparse abrasion and scratches; worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation in relief.
Height
0.024
Preserved length
0.087
Width
0.077
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Emperor (Visual Motif)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Person (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Drawing
Drawing
Pagescan
Suggested citation
“KE 444 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2021. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0444>