- KE 570+1309 (Late Roman Regional Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer 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 139+355
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation North African
- Comparanda
- sim. Bovon1966, p. 91, no. 642, pl. 17 (Theater, Argos)
- Comparanda
- sim. Koutoussaki2008, pp. 363, 364, nos. 638, 644, pls. LXII, H, K, figs. 489, 490, F (Agora and Thermes, Argos)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Corinthian “red“ fabric but unusually fine; variable firing across surface; unusually well smoothed exterior, in general sharp details and clean rendering.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve back top and entire left shoulder, one large (Ke 570) and one small (Ke 1309), with ca. 60% of discus, back right shoulder, upper handle, and small part of nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion and frequent scratching; slightly worn breaks; faint cloud of grayish discoloration.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 83, no. 441 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.0457
- Discus width
- 0.06
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.036
- Preserved length
- 0.124
- Weight (kg)
- 0.072
- Width
- 0.077
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0275
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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