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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 226
- Typological identification
- Middle/Late Roman Athenian lamp, early glazed
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthIV.2, p. 262, no. 1244, pl. XVII (O. Broneer)
- Comparanda
- cf. IsthmiaIII, p. 76, 2986, pl. 32 (O. Broneer; from Theater)
- Comparanda
- cf. Koutoussaki2008, pp. 180-181, no. 205, pl. XXIII, fig. 182 (Argos)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Athenian lamp fabric (orange with a tinge of red; fine; varied, very small, rare, white and black inclusions), firing (consistent?), and surface treatment (orange slip with a tinge of brown, preserved in patches across cracked surface; thin, uneven?).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 45% of upper back part of lamp, including less than one-half of discus and shoulder and upper handle. Severe, extensive erosion and slight abrasion; worn breaks; thin patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 56, no. 249, pl. 11 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.054
- Preserved length
- 0.063
- Preserved width
- 0.062
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.054
- Weight (kg)
- 0.026
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Bear (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 939 (Middle/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/ke0939>
