- KL297 (Early/Middle Roman Corinthian Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Broneer Type XXVIIA Lamp
- Description
- Circular outline. Circular discus has central filling hole with slightly recessed, wide, flat ring, sharp rays, and flat framing ring; unpiereced dimple for airhole at front. Wide, flat to slightly sloping shoulder has large ovules that terminate in double concentric circles flanking nozzle. Slightly raised, kite-shaped nozzle.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Early/Middle Roman Corinthian lamp fabric: hard, very fine, very pale.
- Preservation comment
- One large fragment preserves entire discus and roughly half of shoulder. Slight, extensive film of encrustation.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.075
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.05
- Preserved length
- 0.079
- Preserved width
- 0.069
- Weight (kg)
- 0.02
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KL297 (Early/Middle Roman Corinthian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kl297>
