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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 198
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, p. 191, no. 2777, pl. 43 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Athenian lamp fabric (red, very hard), firing, and surface (slight smoothing).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 65% from upper middle to left part of lamp, including roughly three-quarters of discus, and most of left shoulder and nozzle but missing front lip. Slight, sparse erosion and moderate, extension abrasion; worn breaks; thin white discoloration across discuss (calcareous?).
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.037
- Preserved length
- 0.064
- Preserved width
- 0.042
- Weight (kg)
- 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 709 (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/ke0709>
