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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 169
- Typological identification
- Middle/Late Roman Athenian lamp, early glazed
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, p. 148, no. 1610, pl. 29 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- cf. KerameikosXVI, p. 252, nos. 3870-3, pls. 64, 65 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical middle Roman Attic lamp fabric (fine), hard fired, thin, even, matte slip (purplish).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 25% from upper back part of lamp, including less than one-quarter of discus and shoulder and upper handle. Slight, moderately extensive abrasion and rare pitting; worn breaks; thick film of encrustation in relief.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 61, no. 294 (H. Williams)
- Preserved length
- 0.047
- Preserved width
- 0.052
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.05
- Weight (kg)
- 0.015
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-handle 0.013 m
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 645 (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/ke0645>
