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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 305
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Asia Minor Lamp
- Comparanda
- cf. EphesosIV.2, p. 124, no. 412, pl. III (F. Miltner; Typus III, rosette with 20 petals)
- Comparanda
- sim. Brants1913, p. 64, no. 1125, pl. VIII (rosette with 10 petals; Rijksmuseum, Leiden; from Asia Minor)
- Comparanda
- sim. Katsioti2017, p. 360, no. AM 371 (rosette with six petals but same format and shoulder; Rhodes, dated ca. A.D. 550-650)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric typical (pale pinkish yellow, fine, faintly micaceous), firing, and surface treatment (thin, pale wash). Well aligned and smoothed seam.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves small part of back discus and ca. 25% of back left shoulder and upper handle. Slight, extensive abrasion and minor gouging; worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 72, no. 381, pl. 17 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.0685
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.05
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.032
- Preserved length
- 0.0453
- Preserved width
- 0.0414
- Weight (kg)
- 0.014
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.016
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1130 (Late Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1130>
