- KTH1955 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Circular Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 84, bag 1
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation Syro-Cypriote
- Description
- Circular outline. Broad, flat shoulder with cuneiform panels containing two or three raised rosettes of eight incuse petals, separate by bands radiating outward with series of incurse rectangles in double lines. Wide, circular ring base; plain interior.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- 10R 5/6, red with slightly grayish core. Refined Late Roman southern Argolid fabric: Medium fine, somewhat hard, consistently fired fabric with very sparse, very small, subangular white (calcitic) inclusions. Brushstrokes from carefully smoothing wall.
- Preservation comment
- One fragment preserves less than one quarter of shoulder, wall, and base. Slight, extensive abrasion; heavy, extensive encrustation.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.087
- Body Height
- 0.025
- Maximum preserved dimension
- 0.044
- Weight (kg)
- 0.017
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH1955 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Circular Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1955>
