KL133 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
5YR 6/6, reddish yellow. Hard fabric, somewhat smooth, medium-fine fabric with sparse, spherical to subrounded voids; sparsely cracked surface. Unglazed.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
Description
Tear-shaped(?) outline. Circular, concave discus has rosette with 16–18(?) concave, rounded petals and one small hole upper right. Sloping shoulder has herringbone in low relief. Narrow, sharp joining ridge with excess clay that folds under and slight webbing between shoulder and handle. Unevenly pierced handle with two grooves and misalignment at suture; lower handle has flanking grooves and ears. Flat base has two almond-shaped grooves, slightly off-center, around incuse design of cross with crosshatched arms surrounded by single circles. Details are blurry from worn mold.
Preservation description
One large fragment preserves roughly one-third of discus, shoulder, and base, and most of handle. Slight abrasion; traces of encrustation.
Published as
Rife2022d, pp. 875-876, no. 430, fig. 19.39
Height base to shoulder
0.033
Height shoulder to handle
0.009
Preserved length
0.036
Preserved width
0.059
Other Dimensions
Preserved height base to handle 0.042
Chronology comment
Mid- to late 5th century.
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Drawing
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph