- KE 445 (Late Roman North African 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 105
- Typological identification
- African Red Slip Lamp Hayes Type II
- Bibliography
- ScrantonRamage1964a, p. 718
- Comparanda
- Asia Minor derivative from North Africa model: EphesosIV.2, p. 161, no. 1512, pl. VIII (F. Miltner).
- Comparanda
- Athenian adaptation of Asia Minor derivative: AgoraVII, p. 174, no. 2385, pls. 37, 50 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. Bovon1966, pp. 87-88, no. 608, pl. 16 (different shoulder; Argos)
- Comparanda
- sim. Bussière2007, p. 102, nos. C 293, C 294, pl. 21 (Musée d‘Hippone; from area)
- Comparanda
- sim. CorinthIV.2, pp. 118, 286-287, no. 1468, fig. 53 (different shoulder; O. Broneer)
- Comparanda
- sim. CorinthXIV, p. 164, no. CL3090, pl. 67:1 (Asklepieion)
- Comparanda
- sim. Delattre1892, p. 133, no. 665
- Comparanda
- sim. Ennabli1976, p. 43, nos. 14, 15, pl. I (Bardo: former from Carthage)
- Comparanda
- sim. Garnett1975, p. 197, no. 19 (noting 20 intact lamps from same context: Fountain of the Lamps, northwest of Corinth)
- Comparanda
- sim. Pallas1956, p. 176, pl. 72:α2 (Lechaion basilica)
- Comparanda
- sim. Ramieri1978, pp. 312-313, no. 3, fig. 3 (S. Prisca, Rome)
- Description
- Discus: Abraham sacrificing Isaac.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 50% from top back middle to left part of lamp, including most of discus and most of left shoulder. Moderate, extensive abrasion and slight scratching; somewhat worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation and thin film of white discoloration in relief (calcareous?).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 81, no. 424, pl. 19 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.048
- Preserved length
- 0.053
- Preserved width
- 0.055
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Person (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Religious Symbol (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 445 (Late Roman North African Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2022. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0445>
