- KE 1853 (Early Roman Corinthian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 488
- Typological identification
- Broneer Type XVI Lamp
- Conservation
- 1960s: refitting with natural shellac.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale gray with tinge of brown, more red at very surface (>1 mm); grtty texture; granular break; medium coarse, with unccommon, small, well sorted, rounded and subrounded, white inclusions; and rare, medium to large, angular, lime chunks, some exploding at surface. Variable firing across surface from top to bottom. Traces of wet-smoothing across top and sides. Wheelmade; stringcut base; handmade nozzle, with fingerprints and indentations from modelling visible.
- Preservation comment
- Six joining fragments preserve most of lamp but small parts of discus and base and entire handle. Chipping around edges; slightly worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 11, no. 43, pls. 2, 22 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.042
- Body diameter
- 0.059
- Preserved length
- 0.0931
- Rim Height
- 0.0335
- Weight (kg)
- 0.063
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1853 (Early Roman Corinthian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1853>
