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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 298
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 136, nos. 1140, 1141, pls. 24, 35 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. IsthmiaIII, p. 78, no. 3037, pls. 10, 12, 34 (O. Broneer; from Theater)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic fabric (slightly reddish yellow), firing (hard), surface (smoothed but no slip or wash). Seem slightly misaligned at back of handle.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves 40% from upper middle to back and left part of the lamp, including over one-half of discus, over two-thirds of shoulder, and upper handle. Moderate, extensive abrasion; somewhat worn breaks; few specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 63, no. 319, pl. 14 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.044
- Handle total height
- 0.052
- Preserved length
- 0.071
- Preserved width
- 0.06
- Weight (kg)
- 0.035
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.038
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Chi-Rho (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1123 (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/ke1123>
