KE 1726 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Writing transcription
Ⲥ - Ⲱ
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 455 a, b
Typological identification
Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
Comparanda
sim. AgoraVII, p. 154, nos. 1871-1917, pl. 31 (J. Perlzweig)
Comparanda
sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 280, no. 4510, pl. 76 (B. Böttger)
Conservation
2022 July: mending with UHU Hart (G. Blasdel).
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fabric: pale reddish orange, fired slightly more pale at surface; hard, cracking at surface; gritty texture, granular break; uncommon, small, well sorted, white and rare, small, black and red(?) inclusions). Consistently fired. Surface: unslipped; smoothed. Clean alignment and smoothing at seam.
Preservation comment
Five joining sherds (a+b) preserve ca. 60% of lamp, including most of discus, over one-half of left and right shoulder, entire handle, and roughly one-third of walls and base. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion and rare scratching and chipping; somewhat worn breaks; scattered specks of encrustation.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 68, no. 370b (H. Williams)
Handle total height
0.0445
Preserved length
0.092
Estimated rim diameter
0.044
Weight (kg)
0.058
Width
0.071
Other Dimensions
H. base-shoulder 0.0317
Other Dimensions
H. shoulder-top handle 0.0128
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Drawing
Drawing
File
File
Photograph
Photograph