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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 225
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Typological identification comment
- Athenian copy of Late Roman North African lamp (late phase?)
- Comparanda
- Discus motif: BarberaPetriaggi1993, p. 214, no. 175 (Museo Nazionale Romano)
- Description
- Circular discus with central figural relief, one filling hole center left and one center right, and narrow rounded framing ring. Shallow relief of female bust left with wavy hair pulled back around head and down into chignon, traces of pearl necklace under chin, and dress hanging in folds across chest; traces of headdress on crown. Details are blunt (much more so than shoulder design), some overlap with framing ring (lower right), and faint border below image is tilted down right. Copy (inverted) from worn model of type of Tyche with turreted crown.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale reddish brown, slightly gritty), firing, and surface treatment for type. Smoothed lateral seam.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 75% of lamp but missing back including entire handle. Slight, sparse abrasion and pitting; clean breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 81, no. 423, pl. 19 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.031
- Preserved length
- 0.064
- Weight (kg)
- 0.019
- Width
- 0.056
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Person (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 938 (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/ke0938>
