- KE 1403 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- RO[MA]NE|ƧIƧ
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 400
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp, Knidian
- Typological identification
- Signature, mark, or legend (lamp)
- Comparanda
- Same format: cf. Ke1314-L0359
- Comparanda
- Same motif on thumbplate: Heres1972, p. 82, no. 510, pl. 55 (from Athens; Akademie der Wissenschaft zu Berlin)
- Comparanda
- cf. Bulic1904, p. 110, no. 744 (Museum, Split)
- Comparanda
- cf. Haken1958, pp. 55-56, no. 48, pl. 5 (purchased in Smyrna; Národního Musea, Prague)
- Comparanda
- cf. IsthmiaX, pp. 82-3, no. 56, pl. 7 (Tower 14; B. L. Wohl)
- Comparanda
- cf. Menzel1969, pp. 36, 38, no. 175, fig. 31:3 (from Miletus; RGZM)
- Comparanda
- cf. VikicBelancic1972, p. 176, no. 368, pl. XXVI:5 (Zagreb Museum)
- Description
- Type of Herakles with lion and Keryneian hind.
- Preservation comment
- Five joining sherds preserve ca. 70% of lamp but missing front nozzle and part of base. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and chipping and flaking around edges; slightly worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation in relief.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, pp. 29-30, no. 138, pl. 6 (H. Williams)
- Body diameter
- 0.077
- Preserved length
- 0.091
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Deer (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Herakles/Hercules (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Lion (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Mythological Animal (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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