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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 118
- Typological identification
- Middle Roman Athenian Lamp, unglazed
- Comparanda
- sim. Menzel1969, pp. 56, 81, no. 538, fig. 47:2 (from Miletus; Mainz)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (buff with reddish tinge, more pale surface; fine, hard); consistent firing; unslipped.
- Preservation comment
- Two small nonjoinging sherds preserve ca. 20% from upper middle to left part of lamp, including small part of discus and shoulder, and back wall with lower handle and base ring. Very slight abrasion but surface mostly in good condition; worn breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 55, no. 245, pl. 10 (H. Williams)
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.04
- Preserved length
- 0.051
- Preserved width
- 0.041
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.078
- Weight (kg)
- 0.007
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 458 (Middle Roman Athenian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0458>
