- KE 2083 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 537
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale yellow fabric, consistently fired; hard, gritty; smooth to faintly granular break; uncommon to common, angular, tiny black (some volcanic?) and dark gray bits; rare to uncommon, tiny, silvery micaceous sparkles. Thick, semimatte, somewhat uneven, fired slightly reddish brown but mottled everywhere; slight overbrushed or dripped slip inside nozzle and filling hole onto otherwise plain inside surface. Central Italian-Campanian?
- Preservation comment
- Six joining sherds preserve ca. 75% of rim and base and 50% of body, but missing most of discus and nozzle. Slight to moderate, frequent abrasion and pitting; thin white clouding over surface: incipient encrustation?
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 26, no. 135 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.0602
- Body diameter
- 0.083
- Height
- 0.0289
- Weight (kg)
- 0.034
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 2083 (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/ke2083>
