- KE 638 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 162
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp
- Comparanda
- cf. BMLIII, p. 476, no. Q 3040, pl. 101 (from Ephesus, Flavian-Trajanic; D. M. Bailey)
- Comparanda
- cf. GerousiBendermacher2013, p. 38, no. 5 (Perissa, Thera; dated end 1st-beginning 2nd cs. CE)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pinkish orange; very fine, slightly soft; micaceous); firing; and surface treatment (orangish red slip; mostly thick but variable thickness, mottled to streaky, flakey in places; semilustrous).
- Preservation comment
- Nine joining fragments preserve most of lamp but missing front nozzle and small part of back base. Very slight, sparse abrasion and rare minor gouging; sharp breaks; sparse, thin white cloud (encrustation?).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 25, no. 123, pls. 5, 22 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.046
- Handle total height
- 0.038
- Preserved length
- 0.0832
- Weight (kg)
- 0.059
- Width
- 0.0632
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.024
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 638 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0638>
