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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 195
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 155, no. 1960, pl. 32 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, pp. 250, 279, 280, nos. 3828 (precursor?), 4505, 4510, pls. 45, 46 (B. Böttger)=Karivieri1996, pp. 228-9, no. 224, pl. 20 (Kerameikos, dated mid-5th century)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (brownish red), firing, and surface. Cleanly smoothed seam and alignment at back of handle.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 35% of lamp, including small part of discus, roughly two-thirds of right to back shoulder, entire shoulder, most of walls, and roughly three-quarters of base. Slight, extensive abrasion, pitting, and scratching; somewhat worn breaks; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 61, no. 292 (H. Williams)
- Handle total height
- 0.039
- Preserved length
- 0.067
- Weight (kg)
- 0.036
- Width
- 0.054
- Base Width
- 0.025
- Base Width
- 0.027
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.033
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.006
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- 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 706 (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/ke0706>
