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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 175
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 179, nos. 2478-2480, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (pale red, moderately fine(, firing (consistently hard), and surface (smooth but unslipped). Cleanly joined and slight right misalignment of seam at handle.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 30% of lamp, including roughly one-quarter of right discus, roughly one-half of right to back shoulder, entire handle, large part of wall, and small part of base. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and rare chipping; worn breaks; many scattered specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 63, no. 316 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.067
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.044
- Handle total height
- 0.054
- Preserved length
- 0.075
- Preserved width
- 0.058
- Weight (kg)
- 0.039
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.038
- 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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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 651 (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/ke0651>
