- KE 640 (Late Roman Athenian 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 164
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Typological identification comment
- Disorganized first generation decoration: late date (mid-second half 6th or later?)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Attic fabric (heavy, somewhat gritty), firing, and surface. Slight webbing, smoothed seam; slight right misalignment of handle.
- Preservation comment
- Two large joining sherds preserve ca. 65% of lamp, including roughly three-quarters of discus and shoulder, entire handle, one-half of nozzle, and nearly entire wall and base. Slight, sparse abrasion and chipping; mostly clean breaks; thin, extensive patches of encrustation on all surfaces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 63, no. 322 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.045
- Discus width
- 0.04
- Length
- 0.099
- Base Length
- 0.062
- Weight (kg)
- 0.084
- Width
- 0.063
- Base Width
- 0.032
- 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 640 (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/ke0640>
