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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 309
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Description
- Tear-shaped(?) outline. Tear-shaped(?), concave discus with raised rim around uncertain figural relief: Poseidon facing with trident in right hand and dolphin and left. Flat shoulder with framed herringbone in relief. Thick, pierced handle with three grooves.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale red with tinge of orange; fine, very hard), firing, and surface treatment (thin, even wash slightly more pale than fabric). Cf. Ke1378-L0385.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 28% of upper back part of lamp, including small part of discus, left and back shoulder, and upper handle. Moderate, extensive abrasion and slight pitting and chipping around edges; worn breaks; thin, faint film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 58, no. 268 (H. Williams)
- Preserved length
- 0.055
- Preserved width
- 0.056
- Weight (kg)
- 0.026
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.0385
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0154
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Dolphin (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Poseidon/Neptune (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 1134 (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/ke1134>
