- KE 307 (Late Classical-Early Hellenistic Conical Loom Weight) [permalink] [next] [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
- Mi 77
- Typological identification
- Loom Weight
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthXII, pp. 154, 168, no. 1144, fig. 25, pl. 75 (G. R. Davidson; dated “400-350 B.C.“(?))
- Description
- Conical loom weight tapering at inflection near bottom. Rounded top. Flat to slightly convex bottom. Small hole pierces wall near top. Shallow stamp on lower face at inflection, heavily effaced, impressed from gemstone: circle around relief (probably) of facing large cats on altar or column(?).
- Preservation comment
- Roughly 25% missing from one lower side. Slight, somewhat sparse abrasion with uncommon scraping and gouging and one large chip from lower face; worn breaks; frequent, small but thick patches of encrustation.
- Body diameter
- 0.586
- Height
- 0.0871
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Classical (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Lion (Visual Motif)
- File
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 307 (Late Classical-Early Hellenistic Conical Loom Weight).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0307>
