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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- ΚΕ
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 275
- Typological identification
- Howland Type 25 Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Howland Type 25B=Scheibler Typ DSL 4
- Bibliography
- KenchreaiV, p. 4, no. 5 (H. Williams)
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraIV, p. 73, no. 310, pls. 10, 38 (R. H. Howland)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale red; fine, somewhat soft; smooth break; well sorted, very rare, very small, subrounded, mixed white, black, brown-red inclusions, but white rarely somewhat larger; very rare voids); firing (consistent?); and surface treatment (brownish red slip inside and outside; mottled; somewhat thick, even but flakey, semilustrous). Wheelmade.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining fragments preserve front left shoulder and adjacent wall and almost entire nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion and rare, minor scratching and pitting; worn breaks; faint specks of encrustation.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.054
- Preserved height
- 0.0224
- Preserved length
- 0.0462
- Preserved width
- 0.0411
- Weight (kg)
- 0.019
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 992 (Late Classical-Early Hellenistic Athenian Lamp with graffito).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0992>
