- KE 742 (Late Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more 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 178
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Asia Minor Lamp
- Comparanda
- cf. BMLIII, pp. 15, 16, 385, no. Q 3133, fig. 17, pl. 107 (identified as Eros riding bird right, opposite reptile(?); from Ephesus, dated A.D. 500-600; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- sim. EphesosIV.2, pp. 150-1, nos. 1211-1214, pl. VII (F. Miltner)
- Comparanda
- sim. Hubinger1993, pp. 123-124, no. 253, pl. 29 (same format, eagle facing with spread wings; Universität Bonn)
- Conservation
- 1960s: joined with shellac.
- Conservation
- 2023, July 1: mechanical cleaning to remove gritty encrustation (Angeliki Chandri).
- Description
- Round, slightly concave discus has three filling holes and figural relief: Eros facing right, right wing spread and right arm extended out, apparently riding an animal (bird?).
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Dark orangish pink, somewhat hard, with infrequent, small, subrounded calcitic inclusions, rare, gray, subangular bits and faintly golden micaceous; consistently, hard fired; thin, somewhat even wash same color as fabric. Typical MR-LR Asia Minor.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve ca. 75% from top of lamp but missing nozzle. Slight, extensive erosion, moderate, extension abrasion, and sparse chipping; worn breaks; thick, extensive patches of encrustation.
- Discus diameter
- 0.051
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.036
- Preserved length
- 0.062
- Weight (kg)
- 0.036
- Width
- 0.059
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.009
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Eros/Cupid (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 742 (Late Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0742>
