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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 163
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp, red-on-white
- Comparanda
- cf. EphesosIV.2, p. 184, no. 119, pl. XII (F. Miltner)
- Comparanda
- cf. Waldhauer1914, p. 50, no. 321, pl. XXXIV (Hermitage)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pinkish; very fine, somewhat soft, micaceous), firing, and surface (orangish red fabric, variable thickness, mottled; white undercoat).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 60% lamp including most of shoulder, entire discus, fragmentary handle, and ca. 55% of base with adjacent wall. Slight, moderately extensive abrasion and rare scratching to gouging; extensive erosion and flaking; worn breaks; wide patches of thin encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 32, no. 142, pl. 22 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.035
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.073
- Discus diameter
- 0.049
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.035
- Preserved length
- 0.0643
- Preserved width
- 0.071
- Weight (kg)
- 0.035
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.029
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Dog or Wolf (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 639 (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/ke0639>
