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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 325
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Comparanda
- cf. BMLII, pp. 15, 224, no. Q 1060, fig. 13, pl. 37 (Italian; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- cf. BMLIII, pp. 5, 6, 394, no. Q 3019, fig. 6, pl. 98 (“might well be Apollo“; from Artemiseion, Ephesus, dated 1st century A.D.; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- sim. BMLIII, pp. 8-10, 157, no. Q 1492, fig. 13, pl. 1 (from Colchester; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- sim. Balestrazzi1988, vol. 1, p. 257, no. 702, vol. 2, p. 72, Motivo II.a.4.7.1, pl. 113 (same motif but without grapes; Aquileia)
- Comparanda
- sim. Ladstätter2010b, p. 248, no. A-K 591, pl. 96 (ROW; Hanghaus 2, Wohneinheit 1, Ephesus)
- Comparanda
- sim. Mlasowsky1993, pp. 90-91, no. 80 (Kestner-Museum, Hannover; “italisch(?)“)
- Description
- Type of Bacchus head frontal.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale orange; gritty, soft, granular break; medium fine with sandy inclusions: small, well sorted, rounded, white, black, and clear (quartzitic?)), firing, and surface (faint traces of thin, brown slip).
- Preservation comment
- One small sherd preserves middle of discuss. Severe, extensive abrasion and pitting; worn edges; extensive film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 21, no. 95, pl. 5 (identified as type of Medusa; H. Williams)
- Maximum preserved dimension
- 0.027
- Weight (kg)
- 0.002
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Dionysos/Bacchus (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1212 (Early Roman Italian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1212>
