KE 1125 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Circular Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 300
Typological identification
Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation Syro-Cypriote
Typological identification comment
Corinthian copy of regional (Argive?) product
Comparanda
cf. Bovon1966, p. 92, no. 659, pl. 17 (Argos)
Comparanda
cf. Koutoussaki2008, pp. 400-401, no. 735, figs. 541-543, pl. LXIX (Agora and Thermes, Argos)
Comparanda
sim. Libertini1930, p. 292, no. 1453, pl. CXXIV (same format but details vary; much cleaner organization: a model?; Museo Bascari, Catania)
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Heavy fabric: reddish brown; somewhat fine but granular fracture; varied, well-sorted, tiny to small inclusions, including uncommon subrounded white and rare subangular black; consistently hard fired; thin, even wash, more red than fabric. Cf. Late Corinthian “brick red“ lamp fabric but finer rendering than many. Prominent webbing and ridging around handle and seam but smoothed.
Preservation comment
Two joining sherds preserve complete lamp but missing front left shoulder and right base and adjacent wall. Slight, somewhat sparse pitting, abrasion, scratching and gouging; somewhat clean breaks; faint patches of film of encrustation. Scorching around nozzle from use.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 86, no. 457, pls. 20, 24 (H. Williams)
Base Diameter
0.041
Base Diameter
0.078
Discus diameter
0.037
Handle total height
0.051
Length
0.0849
Weight (kg)
0.091
Other Dimensions
H. base-shoulder 0.035
Other Dimensions
H. shoulder-top handle 0.016
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph
Suggested citation
“KE 1125 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Circular Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1125>