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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 252
- Typological identification
- Howland Type 25 Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Howland Type 25A‘ (dated late second quarter 4th-second quarter 3rd cs.)=Scheibler Typ RSL 4 (dated 370-250); cf. AgoraXXIX, p. 495 (S. Rotroff suggests redating 25A‘: “to ca. 260“)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale orange with reddish tinge; soft, fine, granular break; very rare to rare, tiny to small, well sorted, subrounded(?), mixed white, black, and red-brown particles), firing (consistent?), and surface treatment (dark brown slip, inside but lower wall and base reserved; thin, flakey). Cf. KE 929-L 216.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve much of lower half of lamp, including entire base but missing part of left wall and most of nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion and rare gouging and chipping; worn breaks; very faint cloud of white discoloration?
- Base Diameter
- 0.0374
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.065
- Preserved height
- 0.022
- Weight (kg)
- 0.039
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 969 (Late Classical-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/ke0969>
