- KE 424 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 90
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Buff fabric with a tinge of pink, consistently firedl hard, finel; smooth to vaguely conchoidal or platy break; very rare tiny lime specks; abundant golden micaceous sparkles. Motteld, thick, somewhat uneven, semimatte, brownish orange slip on outside, slightly spreading through filling hole inside.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves 25% of back left discus and shoulder, entire handle, and small part of adjacent wall but missing base. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and rare scratching and pitting; slightly worn breaks; specks of encrustation in grooves.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.064
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.05
- Preserved length
- 0.0492
- Preserved width
- 0.0422
- Weight (kg)
- 0.017
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 424 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0424>
