KTH0269 (Late Roman North African Lamp) [permalink] [next]
Type
Inventoried Object
Technique
Poor impression of an irregularly formed lamp. Large blobs or smeared clay around front margin of shoulder panel. Unevenly arranged shoulder and discus motif, which often overlap edges. Scattered large and small clay globules already in archetype. Delimited place for central filling hole in archetype is solid, and two lateral filling holes on discus pierce through molded design.
Type Atlante X tardif=Bonifay lampe type 69 (‟décors estompés”): late treatment of Atlante Type XA, Groupe C2, variant H
Description
Tear-shaped, flat discus has large filling holes middle left and right, design in low relief, and sharply raised rim. Design depicts four fish in chiastic arrangement and oak leafs(?) in quadrants. Shoulder with rounded rim has broad groove with rows of esses, five per side (Bussière-Rivel N 15 bis). Long, rounded nozzle and a wide, straight, plain channel from the discus to the large wickhole. Traces of burning. Short, narrow, pointed, solid, fin-like handle extends down over discus rim in front and down in low ridge to base ring in back. Plain base with circular, raised ring.
Fabric, firing, surface
Fabric: 2.5YR 6/8. light red. Slip: 10R 6/8, light red. Fine, hard fabric; vaguely gritty texture and slightly granular(?) break. Very rare, small to medium, subangular to angular, white and dark gray inclusions. Bright matte to semiglossy, fine, even slip preserved over most surfaces. Central Tunisian cf. ARS C unrefined.
Label or tag text
β. 1.85 m
Base Diameter
0.042
Discus diameter
0.048
Handle total height
0.045
Height base to shoulder
0.037
Body Height
0.034
Height shoulder to handle
0.08
Length
0.136
Weight (kg)
0.229
Width
0.08
Chronology comment
Type: end 6th-early 7th century (see Bonifay2004, p. 413)
