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Type

Inventoried Object

Logical part of

Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects

Subject number

L 98

Typological identification

Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed

Comparanda

Cf. Zachariadou2001, p. 195, fig. 6 (Athens, Metro-Irodou Attikou Shaft)

Comparanda

Chalice motif: KerameikosXVI, p. 248, nos. 3776-3778, pl. 62 (B. Böttger)

Comparanda

Format: AgoraVII, pp. 144, 174, 178, nos. 1445, 2389, 2454, pls. 27, 38, 39

Comparanda

Motif of bird in chalice: AgoraVII, pp. 174, 175, nos. 2394, 2404, pl. 28 (J. Perlzweig)

Comparanda

Motif of bird in chalice: Bassett1903, pl. XIV:4 (Vari, Attica)

Comparanda

Motif of bird in chalice: GerousiBendermacher2013, p. 76, no. 74 (Perissa, Thera)

Comparanda

Motif of bird in chalice: Karivieri1996, pp. 68, 173, 321, figs. 25, 26 (NAM 3237)

Comparanda

Sim. motif in early ARS lamps (Hayes Form I): e.g., VikićBelančić1971, p. 167, no. 286, pls. XVII:2, XXIV:7 (Zagreb Museum)

Preservation comment

One large sherd preserves ca. 25% from upper middle to back part of lamp, including large part of discus, small part of shoulder, and upper handle. Slight, sparse abrasion and pitting; worn breaks; sparse specks to patches of encrustation in relief.

Published as

KenchreaiV, p. 57, no. 261, pl. 11 (H. Williams)

Preserved length

0.052

Preserved length

0.058

Material

Ceramic (Material)

Has visual motif (depicts)

Bird (Visual Motif)

Drawing

Pagescan

Photograph