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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 249
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 154, nos. 1912-1915, pl. 31 (sim. format but more regular design; J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 254, no. 3932, pl. 66 (B. Böttger)
- Description
- Tear-shaped(?) outline. Circular discus has central filling hole and relief: rosette of 16 petals twisted clockwise; uneven. Flat shoulder framed by rounded rims has wavy lines marked on interior rim by six small single incuse circles. One airhole at back of nozzle flanked by small single incuse circles.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Middle-Late Roman Attic fabric (pale reddish brown; fine, tiny white, gray, and black inclusions, clean fracture), firing (hard), and surface (thin, even, matte slip, light brown with a tinge of red).
- Preservation comment
- One large fragment preserves nearly entire discus from front of handle to back ot nozzle, with ca. 65% of shoulder. Slightly worn breaks; otherwise surface is in good condition.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 61, no. 297 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.036
- Preserved length
- 0.043
- Preserved width
- 0.056
- Weight (kg)
- 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 966 (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/ke0966>
