- KE 1776 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Technique
- Smoothed joining ridge and straight alignment at back of handle but upper handle twisted to right. Small fingernail(?) marks around lower wall.
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 476
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Typological identification comment
- Close Athenian copy of Late Roman North African lamp
- Comparanda
- sim. Bourgeois1980, p. 71, no. 29, pl. VII (same discus but different shoulder; Mactar)
- Comparanda
- sim. Bussiere2007, p. 127, no. C 703, pl. 52 (same discus but different shoulder; Musée d‘Hippone; from area)
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (unusually fine; orangish red), firing (hard), and surface (thin, uneven, matte slip, red to brownish red, over top and slightly over sides).
- Preservation description
- Six joining sherds preserve ca. 65% of lamp but missing part of right side. Moderate, extensive abrasion and frequent gouging, flaking, and chipping around edges; worn breaks; cloud of black discoloration around front lower part (secondary scorching).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 82, no. 428, pl. 19 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.044
- Discus diameter
- 0.042
- Handle total height
- 0.048
- Height base to shoulder
- 0.028
- Height shoulder to handle
- 0.02
- Length
- 0.119
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.077
- Weight (kg)
- 0.087
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Dolphin (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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