- KE 1520 (Late Roman Corinthian Lamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 414
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Corinthian or Regional Lamp, copy/imitation Athenian
- Typological identification comment
- Early copy?
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale reddish yellow, medium to slightly coarse, smooth to slightly hackly fracture, uncommon small white chunks, micaceous specks?), firing, and surface treatment (faint smoothing). Seam is prominent but mostly smoothed with slight webbing.
- Preservation comment
- Four joining sherds preserve small part of back left shoulder, ca. 20% of shoulder, almost entire handle, and small part of back right base. Slight, extensive abrasion and rare flaking and gouging; somewhat worn breaks; large but thin patches of encrustation.
- Handle total height
- 0.045
- Body Height
- 0.032
- Preserved length
- 0.039
- Preserved width
- 0.049
- Weight (kg)
- 0.02
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder handle 0.031
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1520 (Late Roman Corinthian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1520>
