- KE 1200 (Early Islamic Syrian Lamp) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- S 51
- Typological identification
- Roman-Byzantine-Islamic Syrian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Jerash lamp
- Description
- Outward sloping shoulder to rounded back rim. Solid, handmade, vertical zoomorphic handle: horse or camel with cylindrical neck? 7th-8th century.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Fabric: brownish red core with lighted surface (1.5 mm); somewhat frequent tiny black and white bits. Consistently fired hard. Surface smoothed, including back seam.
- Preservation comment
- One fragment preserves entire handle and small part of back of body over seam. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and slight pitting; worn breaks.
- Handle total height
- 0.056
- Preserved length
- 0.019
- Preserved width
- 0.041
- Weight (kg)
- 0.025
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Horse or Donkey (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- File
- Photograph
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