- KTH2644 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation North African
- Description
- Wide tear-shaped(?) outline. Thick walls. Thick joining ridge and flecks of excess clay around front wall. Marks on interior from finger-pressing or molding.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 5YR 6/3, light reddish brown (and darker). Hard, dense, medium coarse fabric, fired slightly more gray toward surface, with frequent, white (“calcitic“), subrounded to angular inclusions and rare, small, subrounded voids (very few opening at surface). Unslipped. Slightly lighter and finer than typical Late Roman Corinthian red lamp fabric but perhaps within range of variation? otherwise regional?
- Label or tag text
- KTH-2015-001 | central hall
- Preservation comment
- One fragment preserves front of nozzle down to roughly one quarter of base. Spare patches of encrustation.
- Preserved height
- 0.029
- Preserved length
- 0.044
- Preserved width
- 0.041
- Weight (kg)
- 0.017
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH2644 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2644>
