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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 495
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke Schulterform IIa
- Comparanda
- Same motif but elongated nozzle and triangular thumbplate: BMLII, pp. 50, 206, no. Q 1005, fig. 53, pls. 28, 35, 95 (Italian, dated ca. A.D. 30-70; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- Same motif but with tight spacing around central ring(s) and double nozzle: Deneauve1969, p. 146, no. 546, pl. LVI (Carthage); CahnKlaiber1977, pp. 191-192, 345, no. 197, pl. 18 (Universität Tübingen; from Alexandria); Balestrazzi1988, p. 298, no. 807, pl. 123 (Museo di Aquileia).
- Comparanda
- Same motif with more tight spacing around central ring(s): Loeschcke1919, p. 399, no. 458, pl. XVI (Vindonissa); Jacopi19321933, p. 531, fig. 68 (Kamiros); Vegas1966, p. 103, no. 39, pls. 1, 7 (Novaesium [Neuss])
- Comparanda
- cf. BemontChew2007, pp. 106, 180, 440, décor D 166, no. IT 17, pl. 15 (Loeschcke Typus IV=Bailey Type B Group ii; Musée d’archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Italian product?)
- Comparanda
- cf. Deneauve1969, p. 114, no. 325, pl. XXXVIII (Carthage)
- Comparanda
- cf. Farka1977, p. 235, no. 535, pl. 39 (Magdalensburg)
- Comparanda
- cf. Heres1972, p. 28, no. 142, pl. 18 (Antikensammlung Berlin; from Asia Minor)
- Comparanda
- cf. Hubinger1993, pp. 67-68, no. 114, pl. 14 (Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Universität-Bonn; Italian product, from Sardis)
- Comparanda
- cf. Menzel1969, pp. 26-28, no. 88, fig. 25:14 (RGZM; from Rome)
- Description
- Type of military arms and armor.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale buff fabric, consistently fired; somewhat soft, very fine, smooth breaking; no visible inclusions; no mica. Thick, even, semimatte slip, orangish red, flaking consistent with postdepositional abrasion. Italian? Corinthian imitative (cf. sigillata)?
- Preservation comment
- One small sherd preserves ca. 8% of discus and small part of shoulder. Slight, extensive abrasion and slight chip around edges; worn breaks; frequent specks to patches of encrustation in grooves.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 23, no. 107, pl. 5 (H. Williams)
- Estimated diameter upper bound
- 0.08
- Maximum preserved dimension
- 0.027
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.075
- Weight (kg)
- 0.002
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Weaponry and Armor (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 1899 (Early Roman Italian or 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/ke1899>
