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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area C (north end of harbor, including mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 180
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, pp. 179, 180, nos. 2480, 2482, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (pale orangish red, moderately fine), firing, and surface. Cleanly smoothed seam and slight left misalignment.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 65% but missing most of discus and right shoulder. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and pitting; worn breaks; sparse patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 63, no. 313, pl. 14 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.037
- Handle total height
- 0.045
- Length
- 0.092
- Base Length
- 0.053
- Preserved width
- 0.053
- Weight (kg)
- 0.056
- Base Width
- 0.03
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.030
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.015
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (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 744 (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/ke0744>
