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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- ΚΥ
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 264
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 186, no. 2656, pl. 42 (J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale red; hard), firing (variable?), and surface treatment (unslipped). Aligned and smoothed seam.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 65% of lamp, inlcuding discus, shoulder, handle, walls and base but missing handle. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and pitting; worn breaks; sparse specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 66, no. 352, pl. 16 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.033
- Handle total height
- 0.05
- Preserved length
- 0.067
- Weight (kg)
- 0.065
- Width
- 0.061
- Base Width
- 0.058
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.034
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.016
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 981 (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/ke0981>
