- KE 1214 (Middle-Late Roman Athenian Lamp with Multiple Nozzles) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- Υ
- Comment
- JLR 6-2022: scale suggests only two nozzles.
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 327
- Typological identification
- Middle/Late Roman Athenian lamp, early glazed
- Bibliography
- On this minor 4th-century workshop, and signatures on few lamps from the Kerameikos, see Karivieri1996, p. 141.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (orangish red, medium fine, smooth fracture but slightly platy), firing, and surface treatment (somewhat thick, even, semimatte slip, deep red with tinge of purple).
- Preservation comment
- One large fragment preserves entire central handle and adjacent discus and two joining fragments preserve ca. 70% of base. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and extensive chipping around edges; widely flaking slip; worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 67, no. 358 (H. Williams)
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.0425
- Handle total height
- 0.0295
- Preserved length
- 0.0388
- Preserved width
- 0.0418
- Weight (kg)
- 0.03
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KE 1214 (Middle-Late Roman Athenian Lamp with Multiple Nozzles).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1214>
