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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 231
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 284, no. 4573, pl. 78 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale pinkish; mostly fine, hard), firing, and surface treatment (unslipped). Smoothed seam.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves most of upper lamp and roughly one half of base but missing right side and front of nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion; worn breaks; very rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 65, no. 337, pl. 15 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.028
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.034
- Preserved length
- 0.069
- Preserved width
- 0.053
- Weight (kg)
- 0.044
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.034
- 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 944 (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/ke0944>
