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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 238
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Corinthian or Regional Lamp, copy/imitation Athenian
- Typological identification comment
- Late Roman Corinthian copy of Athenian late unglazed lamp
- Comparanda
- Athenian lamp sim. Ke1903-L0499
- Comparanda
- Athenian lamp sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 294, no. 4698, pl. 82 (B. Böttger)
- Comparanda
- Athenian lamp sim. Wohl1993, pp. 134, 135, fig. 8=IsthmiaIX, pp. 104-105, no. 6, fig. 2.89 (late unglazed; from grave in Roman Bath, dated late 5th-early 6th centuries)=IsthmiaX, p. 134, no. 377, fig.3, pl. 50 (dated late 5th century[?]; B. L. Wohl)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Corinthian “red“ fabric, firing, and surface (but unusually smoothed). Distinct joining ridge and web but slight.
- Preservation comment
- Intact. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and pitting and rare cracking; small patches of encrustation on bottom.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 62, no. 302 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.035
- Discus width
- 0.033
- Handle total height
- 0.041
- Length
- 0.081
- Base Length
- 0.043
- Weight (kg)
- 0.063
- Width
- 0.052
- Base Width
- 0.024
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.035
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.006
- 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 951 (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/ke0951>
