- KE 110 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area B (northwest side of harbor)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 25
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Typological identification comment
- Material, blunt rendering of shoulder motifs, and unperforated airhole indicate direct copy of North African original.
- Comparanda
- Model sim. Bussiere2007, pp. 132-133, nos. C 813, C 824, pl. 58 (similar discus but variable shoulder; Musée de Hippone, from area)
- Comparanda
- Model sim. Djuric1995, p. 74, no. C226 (similar discus but different shoulder; Anwati Collection, Montreal)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (fine with tiny white, gray, and black bits; orangish red, with platy fracture at surface); firing, and surface treatment (thin, mostly even, red slip that flakes and pits readily over discus and dripping down sides). Cleanly smoothed surface and seam throughout.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 45% of lamp, including small part of discus and channel to wickhole, right shoulder, and roughly two-thirds of wall and base. Moderate, extensive abrasion and slight gouging and chipping; somewhat worn breaks; thin, sparse patches of encrustation especially on walls.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 84, no. 453 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.044
- Preserved length
- 0.089
- Preserved width
- 0.044
- Weight (kg)
- 0.053
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Chi-Rho (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 110 (Late Roman 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/ke0110>
