- KE 1517 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 411
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, imitation Asia Minor
- Comparanda
- For format and style, perhaps an archetype (direct impression) see AltAginaI.2, p. 66, no. 60, pl. 18 (F. Felten).
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 188, no. 2736, pl. 43 (comparable format and decoration; J. Perlzweig)
- Conservation
- 1960s: joined with shellac.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (scattered very small white, gray, black inclusions; slightly gritty), firing, and surface (>1mm fired more pale than fabric). Mostly even alignment of upper and lower halves.
- Preservation comment
- Two small joining sherds preserve ca. 35% from back of lamp and large part of left shoulder, with upper handle. Slight, sparse abrasion and rare pitting and gouging; slightly worn breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 63, no. 321, pl. 14 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.0349
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.0211
- Preserved length
- 0.0539
- Preserved width
- 0.0597
- Weight (kg)
- 0.024
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0105
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 1517 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine 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/ke1517>
