- KL184 (Early-Middle Roman Corinthian Lamp) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- [. . .]◎Π|[ΟΥ]
- Logical part of
- Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
- Broneer Type XXVII Lamp
- Typological identification
- Signature, mark, or legend (lamp)
- Comparanda
- Signature: CorinthIV.2, p. 209, no. 743, pl. XXXI (O. Broneer; signed ΚΑΡΠΟΥ or ΤΕΡΤΙΟΥ)
- Comparanda
- Signature: FDelphesV.1, pp. 188, 191, no. 513, fig. 809 (P. Perdrizet)=Bruneau1971, pp. 468–469, no. 26, figs. 26, 27=Petridis2011, pp. 326–327, no. 6, fig. 7 (signed ΤΕΡΤΙΟΥ)
- Description
- Lower handle does not reach base and has double circles at corners. Body below suture slopes steeply down to base. Flat base has single circular groove around crisp incuse signature preserving triple circle in center (bull’s-eye ornament) followed by pi. Considering space we would expect no more than three letters before stamp, and there seems to have been a second line: [. . .]◎Π|[ΟΥ].
- Fabric, firing, surface
- 7.5 YR 8/3, pink. Typical Early-Middle Roman Corinthian lamp fabric. Sparse, small clay nodules.
- Preservation comment
- One fragment preserves ca. 50% of base.
- Published as
- Rife2022d, pp. 843, 844, no. 359, fig. 19.20
- Preserved length
- 0.04
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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