- KE 749 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 185
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 297, no. 4721, pl. 82 (similar discus+wavey lines; B. Böttger).
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (pale orangish red), firing, and surface treatment. Smoothed joining ridge.
- Preservation comment
- Two large joining sherd preserves ca. 40% from upper back part of lamp, including small part of discus, less than one-half of back shoulder, and upper handle; and lower right wall and base.. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and rare chipping and cracking; worn breaks; faint, somewhat extensive white discoloration (calcareous?).
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.039
- Handle total height
- 0.043
- Preserved length
- 0.05
- Preserved width
- 0.055
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.031
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.012
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 749 (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/ke0749>
