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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 491
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Forme Deneauve VI B
- Comparanda
- cf. BussièreWohl2017, Getty Lamps on-line no. 274 (North African product)
- Comparanda
- cf. BémontChew2007, pp. 188, 271, 446, 476, nos. IT 48, GA 178, pls. 21, 51 (Musée d’archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en Laye)
- Comparanda
- sim. BMLII, pp. 84, 85, 247, 250, no. Q 1117, fig. 99, pl. 42 (shell has 11 ridges; from Pozzuoli, second half 1st century A.D.; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- sim. Bailey1965, p. 68, no. 235, pl. X (shell has 11 ridges; Victoria and Albert)
- Comparanda
- sim. Deneauve1969, p. 165, no. 696, pl. LXVII (shell has five ridges; Carthage)
- Comparanda
- sim. Farka1977, p. 326, no. 1460, pls. 25, 57 (shell has 11 ridges; Magdalensberg)
- Comparanda
- sim. Hanotte2005, p. 154, no. 72, fig. 8, pl. 65 (shell has 5 ridges; Lyon)
- Conservation
- 2018 (June): mended with acrylic resin (UHU Hart) (JLR).
- Description
- Scallop shell
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale brown fabric with a tinge of orange, consistently fired(?); hard, fine, smooth to vaguely laminar break; rare to uncommon, tiny to small, mostly white but also black and dark gray bits. Thin, somewhat even, lustrous slip with metallic sheen, grayish brown but variable fired to light black patching. Smoothing marks around wall.
- Preservation comment
- Nine joining fragments preserve ca. 30% of back body, wall, small part of base, and attachment of handle. Very slight, sparse abrasion and scratching; mostly clean breaks; no visible encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 24, no. 119, pl. 5 (H. Williams)
- Preserved height
- 0.0301
- Preserved length
- 0.0662
- Preserved width
- 0.062
- Weight (kg)
- 0.029
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.0266
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Shell (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1870 (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/ke1870>
