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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area A (south end of harbor, including mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 258
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Comparanda
- For type see KerameikosXVI, pp. 115-117, nos. 560-599, pl. 15 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Athenian fabric (pale red; hard; small, white and black inclusions), firing (consistent), and surface (orangish red; thick, even, semilustrous). Surface smoothed; misalignment at seem.
- Preservation comment
- Four joining sherds preserves ca. 65% from lamp but missing most of middle to front of discus and entire nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion, flaking and chipping mostly on bottom; somewhat worn breaks; few specks of encrustation around lower handle and base.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 58, no. 265, pl. 12 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.034
- Discus diameter
- 0.051
- Handle total height
- 0.0439
- Length
- 0.103
- Weight (kg)
- 0.052
- Width
- 0.073
- Other Dimensions
- H. handle base-shoulder 0.0372
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0067
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Eros/Cupid (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 975 (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/ke0975>
