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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 95
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Typological identification comment
- Late Roman Athenian copy North African lamp
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Standard Late Roman Athenian fabric (orangish red, range of inclusions, irregular fracture), firing, and surface treatment (thin, uneven, brownish red slip almost wash overs top and sides). Cleanly smoothed lateral seam.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves very small part of discus, left front one-quarter of shoulder, and small part of channel to wickhole. Slight, moderate abrasion, pitting, and chipping; mostly clean breaks; thin, somewhat extensive patch of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 84, no. 451 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.047
- Preserved length
- 0.085
- Preserved width
- 0.035
- Weight (kg)
- 0.022
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 407 (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/ke0407>
