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- 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 140
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 154, nos. 1918-1941, pl. 32 (J. Perlzweig)=Karivieri1996, pp. 210-1, 216, nos. 179, 180, 184, 185, pls. 39, 40.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (fine, reddish gray core, very hard fired); thin, even, matte slipped but more of a wash, fires gray. Small globules from air pockets in plaster mold.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 20% of upper back middle to left part of lamp, including less than one-quarter of discus, roughly one-half of shoulder, and upper handle. Moderate, extensive abrasion and slight scratching; worn breaks; infrequent patches of thin encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 61, no. 296, pl. 13 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.044
- Handle total height
- 0.046
- Preserved length
- 0.061
- Preserved width
- 0.063
- Weight (kg)
- 0.032
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.029
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.017
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 571 (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/ke0571>
