- KE 459 (Early Roman Italian 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 119
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typus IB=Broneer Type XXII=Bailey Type A group iii (Late Augustan-Early Flavian, but shoulder form best fits Late Augustan-Tiberian; see BMLII, pp. 135-147)
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke Form II a
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric, firing, and surface treatment (thick chocolate glaze across exterior and interior; mottled, somewhat flakey). Irregular ridges inside from molding process.
- Preservation comment
- Three joining sherds preserve entire base and ca. 75% of lower part of lamp. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion; worn breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 18, no. 68 (H. Williams)
- Body diameter
- 0.071
- Preserved length
- 0.0586
- Weight (kg)
- 0.025
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.029
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 459 (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/ke0459>
