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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 300
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation Syro-Cypriote
- Typological identification comment
- Corinthian copy of regional (Argive?) product
- Comparanda
- cf. Bovon1966, p. 92, no. 659, pl. 17 (Argos)
- Comparanda
- cf. Koutoussaki2008, pp. 400-401, no. 735, figs. 541-543, pl. LXIX (Agora and Thermes, Argos)
- Comparanda
- sim. Libertini1930, p. 292, no. 1453, pl. CXXIV (same format but details vary; much cleaner organization: a model?; Museo Bascari, Catania)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Heavy fabric: reddish brown; somewhat fine but granular fracture; varied, well-sorted, tiny to small inclusions, including uncommon subrounded white and rare subangular black; consistently hard fired; thin, even wash, more red than fabric. Cf. Late Corinthian “brick red“ lamp fabric but finer rendering than many. Prominent webbing and ridging around handle and seam but smoothed.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve complete lamp but missing front left shoulder and right base and adjacent wall. Slight, somewhat sparse pitting, abrasion, scratching and gouging; somewhat clean breaks; faint patches of film of encrustation. Scorching around nozzle from use.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 86, no. 457, pls. 20, 24 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.041
- Base Diameter
- 0.078
- Discus diameter
- 0.037
- Handle total height
- 0.051
- Length
- 0.0849
- Weight (kg)
- 0.091
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.035
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.016
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1125 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Circular Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1125>
