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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 302
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Corinthian or Regional Lamp, imitation North African
- Comparanda
- cf. Bovon1966, p. 89, no. 616 (Argos)
- Comparanda
- cf. Courbin1956, pp. 199, 200, fig. 17:4 (Argos)
- Comparanda
- cf. Koutoussaki2008, p. 369, no. 654, pl. LXIV, fig. 503 (Agora, Argos)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Corinthian “white“ fabric (pale red, fine, very small tiny white bits; somewhat soft and soapy surface texture?), firing, and surface. Wide, sharp joining ridge and blocky webbing.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 35% of upper middle to back part of lamp, including less than one-half of discus, more than one-half of shoulder and outer rim, and upper handle. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and patches of scratching; worn breaks; thin film of encrustation in relief.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 84, no. 447, pl. 20 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.035
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.039
- Preserved length
- 0.064
- Preserved width
- 0.067
- Weight (kg)
- 0.045
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.022
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1127 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Regional Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1127>
