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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 19
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 193, nos. 2825, 2826, pl. 44 (decorative motifs and perhaps central design; J. Perlzweig)=Karivieri1996, p. 208, no. 162, pl. 51 (dated second half 6th century)
- Comparanda
- sim. DemetriasIV, vol. 1, p. 92 (Gruppe IV), vol. 2, p. 108, nos. II.555-II.559, pls. 77, 78 (J. Eiwanger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (reddish orange, mostly fine but one large limestone chunk spalling in left wall), firing, and surface treatment for type (thin, even, semimatte slip, darker red than fabric, brushed haphazardly over surface and into reservoir)..
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve ca. 25% of back left body top to bottom. Slight, extensive abrasion and rare pitting; worn breaks; scattered specks to chunks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 81, no. 420, pl. 19 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.085
- Preserved length
- 0.062
- Preserved width
- 0.0314
- Weight (kg)
- 0.029
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 96 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0096>
