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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 265
- Typological identification
- Middle Roman Athenian Lamp, globule-volute
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, p. 138, nos. 1259-1263, pl. 25 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- cf. Haken1958, pp. 101-2, no. 106, pl. XIV (Národního Musea, Prague)
- Comparanda
- cf. KerameikosXVI, p. 188, no. 2302, pl. 41 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Middle Roman Attic fabric (fine, faintly reddish buff), firing, and surface.
- Preservation comment
- One fragment preserves ca. 30% from the top back part of the lamp, including a small part of discus, less than one-third of shoulder, and part of upper handle. Slight, somewhat sparse abrasion and chipping; worn breaks. Scorching around handle after fracturing.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 56, no. 247 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.034
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.0135
- Preserved length
- 0.038
- Preserved width
- 0.057
- Weight (kg)
- 0.024
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 982 (Middle 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/ke0982>
