KTH0120 (Late Roman North African Lamp) [permalink] [next]
Type
Inventoried Object
Technique
Thick, uneven clay on interior at seam. Large clay globules in shoulder band and broken discus framing ring. Shoulder motif is turned in different directions and shallowly impressed in places.
Atlante Type X, Group D2=Chapman-Davies-Peacock forms 1F-J=Bonifay lampe type 65, variant A (‟copies de lampes du groupe C2”)
Description
Thick walls in circular outline. Shoulder with rounded rim has broad groove with dense row of alternating dotted hearts pointed outward (Bussière-Rivel Jc 6/7) and dotted lambdas (Bussière-Rivel Cg 28-31?) in high relief. Very low, narrow, solid handle.
Fabric, firing, surface
Fabric: 10R 5/6, red. Slip: 2.5YR 5/8 red. Slight coarse, hard; somewhat granular break. Very rare, subangular to angular, black and white rocky inclusions and very rare, small, angular voids. Semimatte, fine, somewhat uneven slip is peeling and slightly patchy. Northern Tunisian.
One large fragment preserves <25% of shoulder and entire base. Slight to moderate abrasion, slight, sparse pitting, and slight cracking across rim; slight, extensive encrustion.
Handle total height preserved
0.042
Height shoulder to handle
0.009
Maximum preserved dimension
0.052
Chronology comment
Type: mid-5th-early 6th century CE (see Bonifay2004, p. 400)
