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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 214
- Typological identification
- Howland Type 25 Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Howland Type 25B (dated second half 4th-first quarter 3rd cs.)=Scheibler Typ RSL 4 (dated 350-250); cf. AgoraXXIX, p. 496 (S. Rotroff suggests redating 25B: 340-ca. 275 BCE)
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraIV, pp. 72, 74, no. 312, pl. 38 (R. H. Howland)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale red; fine, slightly soft; slightly granular break; well sorted, rare, very small, subrounded, mixed white, black, brown-red inclusions); firing (consistent); and surface treatment (black slip inside and outside; somewwhat thick, even but flakey, semilustrous). Wheelmade.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 40% of left part of lamps, including shoulder and adjacent wall and small part of discus but no nozzle or base. Extensive, slight to moderate abrasion and scattered pitting and chipping; worn breaks; faint, thin, patchy cloud of grayish discoloration (calcareous?).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 4, no. 9 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.071
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.075
- Preserved height
- 0.0292
- Preserved length
- 0.0545
- Preserved width
- 0.042
- Weight (kg)
- 0.02
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 927 (Late Classical-Early Hellenistic 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/ke0927>
