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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area UA (Underwater at south mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 394
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typus III=Broneer Type XXI=Bailey Type D Group i
- Comparanda
- sim. BMLII, pp. 200, 201-202, 203, no. Q 995, pl. 27 (slightly larger, with handle ornament in shape of grape leaf; possibly from Italy, dated late 1st century B.C.E.-first third of 1st century C.E.; D. M. Bailey)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale reddish yellow. Somewhat soft, fine to slightly sandy, smooth to crumbly fracture, few tiny bits visible, well sorted (black, gray, red; micaceous traces). Thin, uneven, matte slip, reddish brown with an orange hue. Centrsl Italian.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining fragments preserve (a) ca. 15% from upper part of lamp, including small part of front shoulder and nozzle, and (b) ca. 75% from base and adjacent walls, including attachment of handle ornament. Slight to moderate, extensive erosion and abrasion; slip largely flaked away; worn breaks. Cloud of secondary scorching across interior and exterior.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 19, no. 73 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.08
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.0625
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.022
- Body Height
- 0.029
- Preserved length
- 0.081
- Preserved width
- 0.077
- Weight (kg)
- 0.035
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1387 (Early Roman Italian Lamp with Handle Ornament).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1387>
