- KE 1166 (Early Roman Knidian Pine-Cone Lamp or Flask) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 308
- Typological identification
- Knidian Relief Ware
- Typological identification
- Plastic Lamp
- Description
- Plastic vial or lamp in form of pine cone. Upright orientation co that domed upper body; vertical rim with bevelled inner lip apparently on top.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Pink fabric, consistently fired; orangish red slip, mottled. Very fine, dense and hardx; smooth breaking. Only very rae limes(?) specks. Thin, rather even, semimatte slip over exterior and dripping through mouth. Knidian.
- Preservation comment
- Three nonjoining sherds, two large (a, c) and one small (b), preserve small part of body and ca. 25% of rim. Verty slight, sparse abrasion; slightly worn breaks; thin patches of encrustation in grooves.
- Preserved height
- 0.031
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.035
- Weight (kg)
- 0.004
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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