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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 241
- Typological identification
- Howland Type 25 Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Howland Type 25B (dated second half 4th-first quarter 3rd cs.)=Scheibler Typ RSL 4 (dated 350-250); cf. AgoraXXIX, p. 496 (S. Rotroff suggests redating 25B: 340-ca. 275 BCE)
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraIV, p. 72-73, nos. 305, 310, pls. 10, 38 (R. H. Howland)
- Comparanda
- cf. KerameikosXI, pp. 27, 30, nos. 115, 116, pl. 23 (form broadly dated 330-250 BCE; I. Scheibler)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale red to slightly more yellow at surface; fine, somewhat soft; smooth to slightly granular break; well sorted, very rare, very small, subrounded, mixed white, black, brown-red inclusions; very rare voids); firing (consistent); and surface treatment (black slip inside and outside; somewhat thin, even but flakey, semilustrous).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 25% from back left side of lamp, including shoulder and adjacent wall and part of lug. Moderate, extensive abrasion; worn breaks; faint specks of encrustation and faint, thin cloud of discoloration.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 4, no. 8 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.057
- Preserved length
- 0.0456
- Preserved width
- 0.0459
- Weight (kg)
- 0.021
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 958 (Early Hellenistic 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/ke0958>
