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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 365
- Typological identification
- Middle Roman Athenian Lamp, unglazed
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 146, nos. 1544-1551, pl. 28 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. GerousiBendermacher2013, p. 58, no. 42 (Perissa, Thera)
- Conservation
- 1960s: joined with natural shellac.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (yellow with tinge of pink), firing, and surface treatment.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve ca. 65% from upper middle to back left part of lamp, including most of discus, roughly one-third of shoulder, and upper handle. Slight, sparse abrasion; worn breaks; sparse specks to small patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, pp. 44-5, no. 175, pl. 8 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.052
- Handle total height
- 0.039
- Preserved length
- 0.075
- Preserved width
- 0.069
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0168
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1320 (Middle 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/ke1320>
