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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 204
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Typological identification comment
- Late in series
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, pp. 175-176, nos. 2412, 2413, pl. 38 (late generation copy of same design; J. Perlzweig)
- Description
- Oval outline narrowing to nozzle. Circular discus with raised rim and figural relief: lion crouching right with foliage to left; somewhat schematic details. Outward sloping shoulder with rounding rim bears grape leaves and rosette of eight dots. Solid handle with two grooves above and one below; lower handle defined by flanking grooves. Flat elliptical base with incuse design: two almond shaped grooves, single circles at apices, around palm branch.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric, firing, and surface treatment. Widely smoothed seem and slight rights extending up sides of handle.
- Preservation comment
- Three joining sherds preserves ca. 55% from center to back of lamp, including over one-half of discus and one-quarter of left shoulder (Ke 735) with back right shoulder, entire handle and adjacent back wall, and ca. 30% of bottom (Ke 753). Slight to moderate, sparse abrasion and pitting; slightly worn breaks; infrequent, thick patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 56, no. 252 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.047
- Handle total height
- 0.049
- Preserved length
- 0.037
- Preserved width
- 0.049
- Weight (kg)
- 0.042
- Base Width
- 0.027
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.033
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.016
- Other Dimensions
- pres. Base L. 0.032
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Lion (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 735+753 (Middle/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/ke0735>
