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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 234
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Comparanda
- cf. DemetriasIV, vol. 1, p. 92, no. II.531, vol. 2, p. 105, pl. 75 (J. Eiwanger)
- Comparanda
- cf. FDelphesV.1, pp. 193, 194, 195, nos. 564, 575 (mold), figs. 850, 857 (P. Pedrizet)
- Comparanda
- cf. Goldman1940, pp. 506, 507, no. 23, fig. 250:4 (Halai, Eastern Locris)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Athenian lamp fabric (reddish brown, varied inclusions), firing (hard, black band through core), and surface (somewhat thick, slightly uneven, semiglossy slip, brownish red to purplish where thicker in relief).
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves back right 25% of discus and adjacent shoulder and upper handle.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 83, no. 439, pl. 20 (H. Williams)
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.0257
- Preserved length
- 0.063
- Preserved width
- 0.044
- Weight (kg)
- 0.024
- 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 947 (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/ke0947>
