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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 388
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typus I B/C=Broneer Type XXII=Dressel Form 9=Bailey Type A Group iii (Late Augustan-Early Flavian)
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke IIIa
- Comparanda
- Similar discus motif but different format: BMLII, pp. 79, 320, no. Q 1259, fig. 87, pl. 65 (signed ALEXAN; “central Italian“, dated ca. A.D. 90-140; D. M. Bailey).
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric, firing, and surface treatment for ware: somewhat soft, fine; smooth to granular break; buff fabric , consistently fired; uncommon to common, small angular, black inclusions; thin, semimatte, somewhat uneven,orangish brown slip, mottled. Small clay nodules in grooves.
- Preservation comment
- Three joining sherds preserve almost complete lamp but missing ca. 15% from front, including nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion and minor chipping; mostly clean breaks; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- Hawthorne1965, pp. 199-200
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, pp. 17-18, no. 59, pl. 3 (H. Williams)
- Body diameter
- 0.071
- Discus diameter
- 0.053
- Height
- 0.0298
- Preserved length
- 0.082
- Weight (kg)
- 0.036
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Horse or Donkey (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1381 (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/ke1381>
