- KE 559 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area C (north end of harbor, including mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 133
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation North African
- Comparanda
- cf. IsthmiaIII, p. 81, no. 3151, pl. 36 (O. Broneer; east end, Temple of Poseidon)
- Comparanda
- sim, Aupert1980, pp. 407, 408, no. 9, fig. 12=Koutoussaki2008, p. 362, no. 637.22, fig. 487 (same cross but shoulder varies?; Thermes, Argos)
- Comparanda
- sim. Bovon1966, p. 91, no. 643, pl. 17 (Argos)
- Comparanda
- sim. Koutoussaki2008, p. 363, no. 637.19a, pl. LXI, fig. 485 (Thermes, Argos)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Corinthian “brick red“ fabric (heavy, somewhat gritty), firing (very hard), and surface (sparse smoothing). Slight webbing, distinct, rounded joining ridge; good alignment at back seam.
- Preservation comment
- Intact but missing front 20% of wall and entire nozzle. Very slight, sparse abrasion but otherwise surface in good condition and breaks clean; infrequent, thin patches of encrustation. Front half of lamp shows gray to black discoloration (scorching?).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 83, no. 436, pl. 20 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.032
- Discus length
- 0.039
- Discus width
- 0.036
- Handle total height
- 0.056
- Preserved length
- 0.107
- Weight (kg)
- 0.122
- Width
- 0.073
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.036
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.020
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 559 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0559>
