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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area B (northwest side of harbor)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 113
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typus I=Broneer Type XXII=Dressel Form 9=Bailey Type A Group i-ii (Augustan-Tiberian)
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke Schulterform I
- Comparanda
- cf. BenghaziIII.2, pp. 27-28, no. C 148, fig. 4 (context dated third quarter of 1st century A.D.; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- cf. Bussiere2000, p. 259, no. 255, pl. 30 (Musée de Constantine, Algeria)
- Comparanda
- cf. Fremersdorf1922, p. 130, fig. 84 (private collection, Düsseldorf)
- Comparanda
- cf. Leibundgut1977, pp. 166, 248, nos. 440-441, pl. 40 (Motiv 200; Vindonissa, dated second quarter 1st century A.D.)
- Comparanda
- cf. Mlasowsky1993, pp. 186-187, no. 170 (Kestner-Museum, Hannover)
- Comparanda
- cf. SalamineChypreVII, pp. 96-97, no. 220, pl. 13
- Comparanda
- cf. Sapelli1979, no. 95 (Milan)
- Comparanda
- sim. BMLIII, pp. 55-56, 375, no. Q 3033, fig. 66, pl. 99 (same motif on Asia Minor product, from Ephesus, dated Flavian-Trajanic; D. M. Bailey).
- Comparanda
- sim. Farka1977, p. 225, no. 421, pl. 35 (differences in limbs; Magdalensburg)
- Description
- Hoplomachus and Samnite.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: buff, slightly pinkish; fine, somewhat soft; rare, small, poorly sorted, angular and subangular, lime inclusions. Consistently fired. Surface treatment: brown slip, with orange tinge; inside and outside; thick but variable thickness, semilustrous. Fingerprints on interior from pressing into mold.
- Preservation comment
- Three joining sherds preserve ca. 65% of top and adjacent sides, including most of discus and shoulder but missing front left part and nozzle. Extensive, moderate to severe abrasion and pitting; worn breaks; faint cloud of grayish discoloration.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 22, no. 101, pl. 5 (H. Williams)
- Body diameter
- 0.0653
- Preserved length
- 0.0604
- Weight (kg)
- 0.015
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Gladiator (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 453 (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/ke0453>
