KE 110 (Early Byzantine North African Lamp) [permalink] [next]
Type
Inventoried Object
Technique
Elaborate effort to incise decoration directly into plaster mold (rare clay globules) for lamp in typical ware: early in this technical development.
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 25
Typological identification
African Red-Slip Lamp Hayes Type II
Typological identification comment
Bonifay lampe type 70, variante A (‟décors linéaires”)
Comparanda
sim. Bussiere2007, pp. 132-133, nos. C 813, C 824, pl. 58 (similar discus but variable shoulder; Musée de Hippone, from area)
Comparanda
sim. Djuric1995, p. 74, no. C226 (similar discus but different shoulder; Anwati Collection, Montreal)
Fabric, firing, surface
Central Tunisian fabric.
Preservation description
One large sherd preserves ca. 45% of lamp, including small part of discus and channel to wickhole, right shoulder, and roughly two-thirds of wall and base. Moderate, extensive abrasion and slight gouging and chipping; somewhat worn breaks; thin, sparse patches of encrustation especially on walls.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 84, no. 453 (H. Williams)
Base Diameter
0.046
Estimated discus diameter
0.044
Preserved length
0.089
Preserved width
0.044
Weight (kg)
0.053
Chronology comment
Early-mid(?) 7th century (Bonifay2004, p. 415)
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Christian Chi-Rho (Visual Motif)
Drawing
Pagescan
Photograph
Photograph