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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 115
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- Sim. format with different crosses and shoulder: AgoraVII, pp. 179, 180, nos. 2479, 2480, 2482, 2503, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (red with tinge of orange; fired brownish gray at very surface), firing (hard), and surface treatment for type.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 40% from top middle to left part of lamp, including roughly one-third of discus and less than one-half of left shoulder. Moderate, extensive abrasion and rare scratching and chipping; mostly clean breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 62, no. 308, pl. 13 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.041
- Preserved length
- 0.057
- Preserved width
- 0.042
- Weight (kg)
- 0.01
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 455 (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/ke0455>
