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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 229
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Corinthian or Regional Lamp, copy/imitation Athenian
- Comparanda
- cf. CL 1325, 4291, 69-288 (unpublished)
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthIV.2, pp. 271-2, nos. 1324-1330, pl. XIX (O. Broneer)
- Comparanda
- cf. Garnett1975, pp. 194-5, no. 17, pl. 43 (Fountain of the Lamps, Corinth, dated mid-5th-mid-6th centuries)
- Comparanda
- cf. Oikonomou1988, pp. 485-6, no. 36, fig. 2 (Argos)
- Comparanda
- sim. Ke0934-L0221
- Comparanda
- sim. Bovon1966, p. 80, no. 566, pl. 15 (same format without cross; Argos)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Corinthian “red“ lamp fabric (brick red, heavy, gritty), firing (hard), and surface (somewhat smooth). Slight webbing and narrow, sharp joining ridge; slight left misalignment at handle seam.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 65% of lamp but missing most of discus and right shoulder and wall. Slight, extensive abrasion and rare pitting; worn breaks; scattered patches of thin encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 47, no. 224 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.027
- Discus width
- 0.029
- Handle total height
- 0.04
- Base Length
- 0.038
- Preserved length
- 0.07
- Preserved width
- 0.046
- Weight (kg)
- 0.045
- Base Width
- 0.026
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.028
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.012
- 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 942 (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/ke0942>
