- KE 789 (Early Roman Corinthian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 211
- Typological identification
- Broneer Type XXVIIA Lamp
- Typological identification
- Early Roman Corinthian Lamp, Transitional
- Comparanda
- cf. Bruneau1977, p. 278, no. 29, fig. 31 (no signature; Musée des Delphes; from Amphissa)
- Comparanda
- cf. KerameikosXVI, p. 88, no. 29, pl. 3 (no signature; dated first half 2nd century)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (buff; very fine), firing, and surface treatment (unslipped). Very cleanly and sharply made.
- Preservation comment
- Eleven joining sherds preserve 80% from top of lamp and upper walls but missing small pieces of discus and shoulder and nearly entire nozzle. Three joining sherds, separate from discus, preserve entire base and adjacent walls. Slight, very sparse abrasion; mostly clean breaks; thin, extensive film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 44, no. 168 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.046
- Discus diameter
- 0.068
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.0433
- Preserved length
- 0.104
- Weight (kg)
- 0.055
- Width
- 0.094
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0239
- Other Dimensions
- Total weight 0.054
- 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 789 (Early Roman Corinthian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0789>
