- KE 746 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 182
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 179, no. 2481, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Typical fabric (redfish brown, slightly irregular fracture), firing (hard), and surface treatment for type (smoothing esp shoulder to wall). Rounded but clean lateral seam..
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 65% from upper middle to front of lamp but missing front lip of nozzle and back of discus, back left shoulder, and handle. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and rare cracking; worn breaks; thin, extensive film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 62, no. 311, pl. 14 (H. Williams)
- Discus width
- 0.038
- Preserved length
- 0.072
- Weight (kg)
- 0.026
- Width
- 0.062
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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