- KE 602 (Late Roman North African Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 142
- Typological identification
- African Red Slip Lamp Hayes Type II
- Description
- Shoulder motif: late variant of Bussière-Rivel Ua 5.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman North African fabric, late quality (fine, pale red; smooth to platy break), firing, and surface (thin, orangish red slip). Large fingerprints on interior from pressing into mold.
- Preservation comment
- Three joining sherds preserve ca. 65% of lamp, including almost entire discus, roughly one-third of shoulder, roughly one-half of channel and nozzle, middle to upper handle, most of walls, and entire base. Moderate, extensive abrasion and moderate, sparse flaking and chipping; mostly clean edges; rare patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 80, no. 415 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.035
- Discus diameter
- 0.048
- Handle total height
- 0.049
- Preserved length
- 0.131
- Weight (kg)
- 0.085
- Width
- 0.076
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.036
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.013
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 602 (Late Roman North African Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0602>
