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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 230
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, pp. 140, 186, nos. 1329, 2656, pl. 42 (same format in earlier and later versions; J. Perlzweig) = Karivieri1996, pp. 200, 201, nos. 130, 134, pls. 39, 47 (
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (red with tinge of yellow; coarse, with clustered medium angular gray and varied other inclusions), firing (very hard), and surface treatment. Aligned and mostly smoothed seam.
- Preservation comment
- Almost intact lamp missing front right part. Extensive, moderate abrasion and slight pitting; worn breaks; rare, very thin film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 66, no. 350 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.028
- Handle total height
- 0.049
- Preserved length
- 0.081
- Preserved width
- 0.055
- Weight (kg)
- 0.048
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.035
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 943 (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/ke0943>
