- KE 158 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 42
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation North African
- Typological identification comment
- Regional (or Argive?) rather than Corinthian based on material, manufacturing, and motif?
- Comparanda
- sim. Koutoussaki2008, p. 364, no. 645.1a, pl. LXII, fig. 491 (Thermes, Argos)
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Fabric: brownish red but fired more pale brown at surface; numerous tiny, sharp white bits and rare, medium, subangular white calcitic chunks, fine granular fracture but platy at surface. Could be Corinthian or Argive? Firing: consistently hard. Surface: smoothed shoulder and wall. Straight, rounded lateral seam.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 25% of right top part of lamp, including discus and shoulder down to lateral edge of wickhole and small part of wall. Very slight, sparse abrasion and pitting; mostly clean breaks; very rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 83, no. 443 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.046
- Preserved length
- 0.076
- Preserved width
- 0.041
- Weight (kg)
- 0.022
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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