KE 2004 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 528
Typological identification
Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
Typological identification comment
Format: Loeschcke Typus I early variant=Broneer Type XXII=Bailey Type A Group ii (Late Augustan-Tiberian)
Typological identification comment
Shoulder: Loeschcke Schulterform IIb
Comparanda
Same format: Loeschcke1919, p. 410, nos. 609, 610, pl. XII (Vindonissa)
Comparanda
Same motif: BMLII, pp. 41, 2013-214, 215, no. Q 1029, fig. 43, pl. 33 (Italian product; D. M. Bailey)
Comparanda
Same motif: BussiereWohl2017, Getty Lamps on-line no. 176 (North African product, dated Tiberian-Early Trajanic)
Comparanda
Same motif: FernandezChicarro19521953, pp. 112, 113, no. 287, fig. 60:8 (Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla)
Comparanda
Same motif: Fremersdorf1922, p. 96 (Typen 29-32; Mainz)
Comparanda
Same motif: Heres1972, p. 91, no. 626, pl. 64 (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin; purchased in Italy)
Comparanda
Same motif: Leibundgut1977, no. 119, pl. 33 (Switzerland)
Comparanda
Same motif: Ponsich1961, p. 90, no. 139, pl. XIII (Cotta, Mauretania)
Comparanda
Same motif: Rivet2003, pp. 92-93, nos. 198-203 (from Golfe du Fos)
Comparanda
Same motif: RodriguezMartin2005, no. 139, pl. 28 (Badajoz)
Comparanda
Same motif: deBrunGagniere1937, pp. 25, 26, no. 58, pl. V (Musée Calvet d’Avignon)
Comparanda
cf. SalamineChypreVII, p. 135, no. 372, pl. 20 (Nicosia Museum; T. Oziol).
Description
Type of Pegasus striding left.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Typical fabric (buff with tinge of yellow, somewhat soft), firing, and surface treatment (brown slip inside and out; uneven, semimatte; streaky or mottled, flakey). Lamp slightly bent to one side across bottom before firing.
Preservation comment
One large sherd preserves back 50% of lamp but missing top of handle and entire nozzle. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion with scratching and pitting, minor chipping around edges; worn breaks; rare patches of encrustation.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 22, no. 97, pl. 5 (H. Williams)
Body diameter
0.07
Height
0.0272
Preserved length
0.0552
Weight (kg)
0.036
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Mythological Animal (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph