Type Atlante X tardif=Bonifay lampe type 69 (‟décors estompés”): late treatment of Atlante Type XA, Groupe C2, variant Hb
Description
Tear-shaped outline. Keyhole format. Oval, slightly concave discus has large filling holes middle left and right, design in low relief, and sharply raised rim. Design depicts four simple, triangular leafs in cross arrangement and smaller, inverted, sharp leafs in quadrants. Shoulder with rounded rim has broad groove with dense row of alternating quintuple circles, five per side (like Bussière-Rivel Da 27bis), and sexfoils, three per side (Bussière-Rivel Wa 10/11). Long, rounded nozzle and a wide, straight, plain channel from the discus to the large wickhole. No evidence of burning. Low, narrow, pointed, solid, fin-like handle extends down over discus rim in front and down in low ridge to base ring in back. Circular base with raised ring; interior is plain and slightly convex.
Fabric, firing, surface
Pale reddish orange fabric and orange slip. Fine, hard; mostly smooth to slightly granular break. Rare, tiny, mixed inclusions (white, dark). Somewhat thick, even, semimatte slip on all surfaces. Central Tunisian cf. ARS C ware. Cf. KTH0176.
Preservation description
Intact; apparently unused.
Base Diameter
0.042
Discus diameter
0.05
Length
0.137
Width
0.077
Chronology comment
Type: end 6th-early 7th century (see Bonifay2004, p. 413)
