- KE 233 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 59
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Description
- Elliptical to tear-shaped outline. Oval flat bottom with incuse manufacturing mark: single simple palm branch surrounded by double grooves in ellipsis with single circles at front and back points.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (very pale red, few tiny black bits); firing, and surface treatment (thin, consistent slip slightly darker than fabric, almost a wash). Slightly thickened and smoothed seem.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves entire base and ca. 55% of walls from seem down. Slight, extensive pitting and abrasion and very rare gouging; mostly clean breaks; thin to thick, extensive patches of encrustation on all surfaces.
- Base Length
- 0.047
- Preserved height
- 0.069
- Preserved length
- 0.058
- Preserved width
- 0.066
- Weight (kg)
- 0.026
- Base Width
- 0.036
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 233 (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/ke0233>
