KE 749 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 185
Typological identification
Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
Comparanda
sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 297, no. 4721, pl. 82 (similar discus+wavey lines; B. Böttger).
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (pale orangish red), firing, and surface treatment. Smoothed joining ridge.
Preservation comment
Two large joining sherd preserves ca. 40% from upper back part of lamp, including small part of discus, less than one-half of back shoulder, and upper handle; and lower right wall and base.. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and rare chipping and cracking; worn breaks; faint, somewhat extensive white discoloration (calcareous?).
Estimated discus diameter
0.039
Handle total height
0.043
Preserved length
0.05
Preserved width
0.055
Other Dimensions
H. base-shoulder 0.031
Other Dimensions
H. shoulder-top handle 0.012
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Drawing
Pagescan
Photograph