- KE 961 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Asia Minor or Aegean Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 244
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Aegean Lamp
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Asia Minor Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format is Early Byzantine Aegean but shoulder decoration is triangles from North African repertoire; this is an Asia Minor copy?
- Comparanda
- sim. GerousiBendermacher2013, p. 165, no. 238 (Perissa, Thera)
- Comparanda
- sim. format: Katsioti2017, p. 491, nos. AE 15-17 (Rhodes, Early Byzantine)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pinkish, fine, slightly soft; highly micaceous), firing, and surface firing (pale surface skin). Slight seam ridging.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves most of upper part above seam but missing front right part. Slight, sparse abrasion and rare pitting; worn breaks; very rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 73, no. 386, pl. 17 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.045
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.026
- Length
- 0.078
- Preserved height
- 0.012
- Preserved length
- 0.081
- Weight (kg)
- 0.032
- Width
- 0.054
- Width
- 0.057
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 961 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Asia Minor or Aegean Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0961>
