- KTH0269 (Late Roman North African Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- African Red Slip Lamp Hayes Type II
- Description
- Tear-shaped, flat discus has large filling holes middle left and right, design in low relief, and sharply raised rim. Design depicts four fish in chiastic arrangement and oak leafs(?) in quadrants. Shoulder with rounded rim has broad groove with rows of esses, five per side (Bussière-Rivel N 15 bis). Long, rounded nozzle and a wide, straight, plain channel from the discus to the large wickhole. Traces of burning. Short, narrow, pointed, solid, fin-like handle extends down over discus rim in front and down in low ridge to base ring in back. Plain base with circular, raised ring. Decorative details are fine and sharp.
- Extant part
- Intact.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 2.5YR 6/8. light red. Slip: 10R 6/8, light red. North African Hayes II fabric: very fine, soft fabric with very rare, small to medium-sized, subangular to angular, white and black inclusions. Bright matte to semiglossy, fine, even slip preserved over most surfaces; soapy texture
- Label or tag text
- β. 1.85 m
- Base Diameter
- 0.042
- Discus diameter
- 0.048
- Handle total height
- 0.045
- Body Height
- 0.034
- Length
- 0.136
- Weight (kg)
- 0.229
- Width
- 0.08
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-rim 0.037
- Other Dimensions
- H. rim-handle 0.080
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Fish (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KTH0269 (Late Roman North African Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth0269>
