KE 2083 (Early Roman Italian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer 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
Photograph