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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 223
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 179, no. 2479, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Athenian lamp fabric (pale red; hard; small, subangular white and black inclusions), firing, and surface (smoothed). Clean seam with slight misalignment at handle.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 55% of lamp but missing nozzle and middle to front part of base. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and sparse pitting and scratching; worn breaks; extensive, thin film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 62, no. 306, pl. 13 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.045
- Discus width
- 0.037
- Handle total height
- 0.044
- Preserved length
- 0.071
- Weight (kg)
- 0.044
- Width
- 0.057
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.036
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.008
- 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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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 936 (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/ke0936>
