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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 239
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Corinthian Lamp
- Comparanda
- For base cf. Garnett1975, pp. 181-2, fig. 1:43 (Fountain of the Lamps, Corinth)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (brownish red; heavy and dense), firing, and surface treatment. Late Roman Corinthian “brick red“ fabric. Slight ridging and webbing. Cast from very worn original.
- Preservation comment
- Intact but large cracks around nozzle. Extensive, moderate to severe erosion and sparse pitting and flaking; scattered specks of encrustation and white discoloration possibly from calcareous cloud.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 48, no. 229, pls. 10, 23 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.037
- Discus diameter
- 0.034
- Handle total height
- 0.046
- Length
- 0.098
- Weight (kg)
- 0.094
- Width
- 0.07
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.031
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.015
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- 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 952 (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/ke0952>
