KL050 (Early Roman Corinthian Imitative Lamp) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Early Roman Corinthian Imitation or Copy of Italian Lamp
Conservation
Nozzle: see Balestrazzi1988, vol. 1, pp. 332-337 (Museo di Aquileia)
Conservation
Nozzle: see Loeschcke1919, pp. 232-234 (Typus VIA; Vindonissa)
Contributor Notes
2025: JLR revised the identification in Rife2022d to certainly Corinthian and adjusted date.
Description
Circular, concave, plain(?) discus has airhole at bottom and raised rim. Plain, sloping to rounded shoulder. Rounded nozzle has wickhole with broad, heart-shaped rim with two circular extensions in corners touching discus rim; traces of burning.
Fabric, firing, surface
Fabric: 7.5YR 7/4, pink. Slip: 5YR 4/3, reddish brown. Somewhat soft, fine, almost powdery fabric with rare, very small, subrounded, white and rarely gray inclusions. Thin, uneven, mottled slip, peeling everywhere in tiny flakes. Corinthian.
Preservation description
Two joining fragments preserve ca. 30% of shoulder, entire nozzle, and small part of discus. Heavy, extensive abrasion; worn breaks; sparse specks of encrustation.
Published as
Rife2022d, pp. 764, 816, 817, no. 306, fig. 19.5
Estimated discus diameter
0.063
Preserved length
0.054
Chronology comment
Mid-late 1st century CE
Explanation of deposition
Residual in Byzantine-Modern colluvium across central slope.
Material
Ceramic (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRC0702-002
Location in unit
Near surface east of Building C1.
Drawing
Drawing
Photograph