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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area E (north side of harbor)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 121
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation Syro-Cypriote
- Comparanda
- cf. CL 3094 (unpublished)
- Comparanda
- cf. Aupert1980, pp. 411, 413, no. 63, fig. 29=Koutoussaki2008, pp. 403-4, no. 740.9, pls. I, LXIX, figs. 60, 549 (Argos)
- Comparanda
- sim. SlaneSanders2005, pp. 268, 269, no. 3-6, fig. 10a (format; Baths of Aphrodite, Corinth, assemblage 3 dated end 6th century)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pinkish buff; fine, very clean (including very rare red, black, white, gray, many rounded, well sorted). Even firing. Clean surface. Northeastern Peloponnesian: southern Argolid? Overall well made.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 40% of shoulder and small part of discus. Well preserved surface; slightly worn breaks; infrequent specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 86, no. 461, pl. 20 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.045
- Preserved length
- 0.047
- Preserved width
- 0.041
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.092
- Weight (kg)
- 0.013
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 503 (Early Byzantine Regional Circular Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0503>
