- KL251 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Aegean or Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Aegean Lamp
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Asia Minor Lamp
- Comparanda
- See e.g. Katsioti2017, pp. 444, 455, nos. S 37, S 67 (Rhodes, origin identified as Ephesos, dated “end of the 6th century–650”), p. 536, no. Un 69 (Rhodes, dated 6th century)
- Description
- Triangular handle shield that tapers to narrow attachment with shoulder. Front has simple impressed palmette design of single circle at base of stem and five fronds per side. Back is mostly plain but shows tops of two crescent grooves (“fishtail”) near base. Dodecanesian or southwestern Asia Minor.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Fabric: 5YR 8/4, pink. Slip: 5YR 5/6, yellowish red. Somewhat hard, fine, micaceous fabric with very rare, very small, angular, white inclusions; very small to small, subrounded to angular voids. Thin, even, semilustrous slip preserved over much of surface.
- Preservation comment
- One large fragment preserves entire handle shield and shallow attachment to shoulder. Traces of encrustation.
- Published as
- Rife2022d, pp. 803-804, 899-900, no. 480, fig. 19.55
- Preserved height
- 0.039
- Thickness
- 0.015
- Width
- 0.035
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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