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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 201
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Corinthian Lamp
- Typological identification
- Roman-Byzantine-Islamic Syrian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Argolic copy of Asia Minor lamp imitating Late Roman Syrian lamp? Syrian discus design, but base and shape are Asia Minor format. Manufacturing details indicate surmoulage from worn model.
- Comparanda
- sim. Waagé1941, p. 66, no. 138, pl. 91:1, 2 (Type 49c; Syrian Antioch)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pinkish core and buff surface; fine, smooth fracture; tiny to small, well sorted, black and white and rare red inclusions; faintly micaceous. Even hard firing. Argolid fabric. Wide, uneven seem; prominent webbing at handle and nozzle.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 65% of lamps but missing back left top and back right base and wall. Sparse, slight abrasion and pitting with minor chipping; worn breaks; small, infrequent specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 76, no. 49, pl. 18 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.047
- Length
- 0.091
- Weight (kg)
- 0.044
- Other Dimensions
- Estimated body width 0.061
- Other Dimensions
- Estimated discus width 0.045
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 712 (Late Roman Argolic copy of Asia Minor-Syrian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0712>
