KE 1949 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 513
Typological identification
Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
Typological identification comment
Format: Loeschcke Typus I B/C=Broneer Type XXII=Dressel Typus 9=Bailey Type A Group iii (Late Augustan-Early Flavian).
Typological identification comment
Shoulder: sim. Loeschcke Schulterform III a
Comparanda
Similar motif but eight petals and volute nozzle: Farka1977, p. 250, no. 673, pl. 45 (Magdalensburg); Kuzmanov1992, pp. 20, 70, no. 69 (Sofia Museum; from Varna).
Comparanda
The same discus motif occurs on Italian lamps with two nozzles: e.g., Balestrazzi1988, p. 298, no. 808, pl. 123 (Museo di Aquileia); BMLII, p. 211, no. Q 1020, pl. 30 (dated ca. A.D. 40-90; D. M. Bailey).
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Typical fabric, firing, and surface treatment: pale yellow with faint pink cloud from variable firing; somewhat hard, slightly gritty texture; rare, small, poorly sorted, black bits; thin, semiglossy(?) slip, orangish brown but mottled, on outside and spilling inside through filling hole.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 26, no. 131, pl. 6 (H. Williams)
Base Diameter
0.0397
Body diameter
0.0731
Discus diameter
0.0598
Height
0.026
Weight (kg)
0.035
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Pagescan
Photograph
Photograph