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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 165
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Asia Minor Lamp
- Comparanda
- cf. BMLIII, p. 382, nos. Q 3105, Q 3106, pl. 105, figs. 60, 143 (D. M. Bailey; same format and shoulder, crater with plant and two panthers on discus; from Kalymnos and Ephesus, dated AD 500-600)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pinkish orange, somewhat gritty, highly micaceous), firing, and surface treatment (somewhat thick, even, semimatte slip, red with tinge of purple); cf. Ke0558. Smooth and aligned seam.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves small part of discus, ca. 15% of back shoulder, upper handle and adjacent lower wall. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and rare gouging; worn breaks.
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.037
- Preserved length
- 0.035
- Preserved width
- 0.056
- Weight (kg)
- 0.016
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.012
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 641 (Late 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/ke0641>
