Ke 2421 (Late Roman North African Lamp) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Comment
Inventory number created and object studied in June, 2022; subject number created by H. Williams in ca. 1972.
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
L 545
Typological identification
African Red-Slip Lamp Hayes Type II
Typological identification comment
Atlante Type XA, Group C3=Bonifay lampe type 55
Comparanda
Format cf. BarberaPettriagi1993, pp. 218, 246, 259, nos. 179, 207bis, 220 (crouching lion on discus; Museo Nazionale Romano, dated second half 5th century)
Fabric, firing, surface
Pinkish orange fabric, consistently fired; fine, hard, smooth with vaguely conchoidal break; rare, tiny specks, well sorted, light and dark. Orange slip with a tinge of red, somewhat thin, even, semimatte, smooth but worn and flaking. Central Tunisian cf. ARS C ware.
Preservation description
One sherd preserves ca. 30% of right shoulder and rim down wall. Slight, sparse abrasion; slightly worn breaks; no encrustation but cloudy white encrustation.
Published as
KenchreaiV, p. 80, no. 416 (H. Williams)
Weight (kg)
0.027
Chronology comment
Type: late 5th-early 6th century ([@Bonifay2004, p. 386)
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Photograph