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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 228
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Corinthian or Regional Lamp, copy/imitation Athenian
- Typological identification comment
- Late Roman Corinthian copy of Athenian late unglazed lamp
- Comparanda
- Model sim. AgoraVII, p. 182, no. 2544, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Description
- Almond-shaped format. Slightly oval, concave discus raised rim has central filling hole and relief of outlined Greek cross with slightly flaring arms. Flat shoulder has panel with herringbone in relief. Plain nozzle flanked by two angled grooves and two single circles at top. Solid handle has two grooves above seem. Flat base has two almond-shaped grooves around simple leaf and two circles above flanking base of handle. All details blunt. Distinct seem with small shelf and webbing.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Corinthian “white“ fabric (pinkish buff but slightly more pale at surface; platy fracture; rare, small white calcitic inclusions), firing, and surface (somewhat rough and uneven). Clean seam but slight misalignment at handle.
- Preservation comment
- Three joining sherds preserve ca. 75% of lamp but missing middle to right top and front of lamp. Moderate, extension erosion and abrasion and slight flaking and chipping; worn breaks; thin but extensive film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 62, no. 304, pl. 13 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.036
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.035
- Base Length
- 0.032
- Preserved length
- 0.071
- Width
- 0.059
- Base Width
- 0.024
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.037
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 941 (Late 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/ke0941>
