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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 172
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 180, no. 2482, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Attic lamp fabric, firing, and surface but slightly pale; smoothed surface in places.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 40% from top middle to left back part of lamp, including roughly one-third of discus and shoulder and upper handle. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and pitting; worn breaks; thin but extensive film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 63, no. 317 (H. Williams)
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.029
- Preserved length
- 0.055
- Preserved width
- 0.045
- Weight (kg)
- 0.035
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.016
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Chi-Rho (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 648 (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/ke0648>
