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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- ⲤⲰ
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 253
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, pp. 288-289, nos. 4628-4635, pl. 80 (similar discus signed ΧΙΟ|ΝΗⲤ; B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (pale red, somewhat fine), firing, and surface. Smoothed seam and good alignment at handle.
- Preservation comment
- Intact but hole in middle to right discus. Slight, sparse abrasion and rare chipping; mostly clean breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 60, no. 289, pl. 13 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.042
- Handle total height
- 0.045
- Length
- 0.093
- Base Length
- 0.051
- Weight (kg)
- 0.08
- Width
- 0.063
- Base Width
- 0.037
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.034
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.011
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Shell (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 970 (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/ke0970>
