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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 109
- Typological identification
- Middle/Late Roman Athenian lamp, early glazed
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, p. 115, no. 714, pl. 16 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. Bassett1903, p. 344, pl. XIII:7 (Vari Cave, Attica)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 276, no. 4468, pl. 75 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Athenian lamp fabric (brownish red; somewhat gritty; very hard; crazing at surface), firing (consistent), and surface treatment (brownish orange slip; somewhat thin, even, semimatte).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 30% of top back middle part of lamp, including roughly one-half of discus, small part of shoulder, and front of handle. Slight, sparse abrasion; mostly clean breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 58, no. 264, pl. 11 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.048
- Preserved length
- 0.041
- Preserved width
- 0.034
- Weight (kg)
- 0.007
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Eros/Cupid (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 449 (Middle/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/ke0449>
