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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 146
- Typological identification
- Middle/Late Roman Athenian lamp, early glazed
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, p. 132, no. 1023, pl. 21 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- cf. GillHedgecock1992, p. 420, no. 29, fig. 29 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
- Comparanda
- cf. Karivieri1996, p. 68, fig. 29 (NAM 3118)
- Comparanda
- cf. KerameikosXVI, pp. 182-3, nos. 2107, 2108, pl. 39 (B. Böttger)
- Description
- Type of ship sailing right with backwards mast.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Middle Roman Athenian lamp fabric, firing, and surface treatment (reddish orange slip; thick, even but streaky, semilustrous)
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve ca. 40% from upper middle to right part of lamp, including roughly one-quarter of right discus and one-quarter of right back shoulder. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion and slight chipping around edges; mostly clean breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, pp. 58-59, no. 270 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.059
- Preserved length
- 0.063
- Preserved width
- 0.053
- Weight (kg)
- 0.013
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Maritime Activities
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 606 (Middle/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/ke0606>
