KE 1950 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 514
Typological identification
Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
Typological identification comment
Format: Loeschcke Typus I B = Broneer Type XXII = Dressel Form 9 = Bailey Type A Group ii (Augustan-Tiberian).
Typological identification comment
Shoulder: Loeschcke II a.
Comparanda
The motif of Actaeon in this pose, transforming into a stag, and his hound in full side-view jumping up to his stomach is common on western lamps (and their copies or imitations) with both triangular and rounded volute-nozzles that were widely popular: Osborne1924, p. 10, no. 27, pl. 2 (Alexandria); Waagé1941, pp. 64, 75, no. 40b:104, fig. 77 (Italian, Tiberian?); Vessberg1953, pp. 116, 121, pl. II:9 (Type 10; Cyprus Collections, Stockholm); Ponsich1961, p. 83, no. 68, pl. 7 (Banasa, northern Morocco); Bailey1965, p. 31, nos. 30, 31, pl. IV (Victoria and Albert Museum; Cypriot?); Iconomu1967, pp. 13, 57, no. 168, fig. 21 (Callatis, southeast Romania); Heres1968, p. 197, no. 116, pl. 29:4 (Romanesis workshop, Knidian); [VikićBelančić1971,] p. 173, no. 338, pl. XXVI:2 (Zagreb Museum); Heres1972, p. 26, no. 70 (Antikensammlung, Berlin; from Miletus?); Farka1977, p. 254, no. 717, pl. 31 (Magdalensburg); SalamineChypreVII, pp. 155-156, no. 456, pl. 24 (T. Oziol); Sapelli1979, p. 54, no. 89, pl. 11 (Milan); BenghaziIII.2, pp. 29, 41, nos. C 156, C 248, figs. 4, 5, pl. 8 (contexts dated 1st century A.D.; D. M. Bailey); LABNII, pp. 34-35, no. 118, pl. XII (M.-C. Hellmann); BMLIII, pp. 37, 302, nos. Q 2381-Q 2383, fig. 41, pl. 63 (from Cyprus; D. M. Bailey); Mlasowsky1993, pp. 118-119, no. 105 (Kestner Museum, Hannover; Cypriot, dated ca. A.D. 40-100); Bémont2003, pp. 71-72, no. 397, pl. 37 (Glanum); Rivet2003, pp. 82, 98, nos. 195, 425, 426 (Musée d’Istres; from Golfe du Fos); Thöne2004, pp. 50, 73, 146, nos. 74, 125, pls. 10:3, 19:3 (Motiv 20; Heidelberg); BussièreWohl2017, Getty Lamps on-line no. 169 (purchased from Germany).
Description
Type of transforming Actaeon and hound.
Published as
KenchreaiI, p. 36, pl. LVI:C (R. Scranton)
Published as
KenchreaiV, pp. 16-17, no. 55, pls. 2, 22 (H. Williams)
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Dog or Wolf (Visual Motif)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Person (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Drawing
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