KTH1955 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Circular Lamp) [permalink] [show fewer 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
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph