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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 107
- Typological identification
- Unclassified Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Probably plain wheelmade Middle-Late Roman North African lamp? e.g. Bussiere2000, p. 400, no. 6535, pl. 134 (type E VI)
- Bibliography
- KenchreaiV, p. 24, no. 117, pl. 5 (H. Williams)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale red with a tinge of orange. Hard, slightly gritty fabric; smooth to faintly hackly break; very rare to rare, isolated, tiny lime specks and black bits; one small, irregular lime chunk spalling. Surface has thin, even wash fired slightly more brown than fabric. Entire surface shows tiny clay nodules(?). Turning lines on interior. Wheelmade.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 60% of lamp but missing left shoulder and most of nozzle. Very sight abrasion and scratching and minor chipping around edge; slightly worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.064
- Preserved length
- 0.0712
- Preserved width
- 0.0578
- Weight (kg)
- 0.033
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 447 (Early Roman North African[?] Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0447>
