KE 566 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Comment
JLR 1-2024: double check fabric and slip, wAM?
Logical part of
Area C (north end of harbor, including mole)
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 135
Typological identification
Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fabric: buff with tinges of pink and yellow; uncommon, well sorted, subrounded, small, white (calcareous) and very rare, medium small, angular, gray inclusions. Variable firing. Slip: white underslip, thin; chocolate brown but orange patches, across outside and patchy inside lamp; thick but variable, even, semilustrous but fired to metallic sheen across top.
Preservation comment
Three joining sherds preserve ca. 50% of discus and back to left shoulder, attachments of handle, and most of base with adjacent wall. Slight, sparse abrasion and rare pitting and scratching; slightly worn breaks; specks of encrustation.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 25, no. 124 (H. Williams)
Estimated body diameter
0.0695
Estimated discus diameter
0.051
Preserved length
0.0765
Preserved width
0.0556
Weight (kg)
0.028
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Pagescan
Photograph
Photograph