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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area C (north end of harbor, including mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 235
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 181, no. 2519, pl. 40 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. CorinthIV.2, p. 274, no. 1355, pl. XIX (signed ΧΙΟΝΗⲤ; O. Broneer)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 294, no. 4698, pl. 82 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (pale red with tinge of orange; slightly gritty), firing (hard, surface slightly darker than fabric), and surface (smoothed). Mostly clean joining ridge and alignment at seam.
- Preservation comment
- Intact. Very slight, sparse abrasion and rare chip on bottom; rare specks of encrustation on bottom; film of white discoloration (calcareous?).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, pp. 61-2, no. 301, pl. 13 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.039
- Discus width
- 0.032
- Handle total height
- 0.048
- Length
- 0.092
- Base Length
- 0.057
- Weight (kg)
- 0.079
- Width
- 0.058
- Base Width
- 0.038
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.033
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.015
- 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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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 948 (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/ke0948>
