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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 402
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Description
- Athena Promachos, late version
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale red; hard, gritty texture; small, uncommon, well sorted, mixed inclusions), firing, and surface treatment (unslipped but surface smoothed). Slight right misalignment at seam.
- Preservation comment
- Intact. Very slight abrasion but otherwise surface in good condition; cloud of gray discoloration on upper right side (secondary scorching).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 58, no. 266, pl. 12 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.037
- Discus width
- 0.041
- Length
- 0.084
- Base Length
- 0.046
- Width
- 0.063
- Base Width
- 0.031
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Athena/Minerva (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1508 (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/ke1508>
