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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 416
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale red but surface more orange; hard), firing, and surface treatment (unslipped but smoothed?). Slight misaligned at seam but smoothed.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 70% of discus and adjacent shoulder, entire handle, and ca. 45% of base and adjacent wall but missing nozzle. Slight, moderate abrasion and pitting; splitting along back right seam; worn breaks; rare thin patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 66, no. 354 (H. Williams)
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.039
- Discus length
- 0.032
- Handle total height
- 0.047
- Preserved length
- 0.0799
- Preserved width
- 0.0531
- Weight (kg)
- 0.051
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.033
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.014
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KE 1576 (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/ke1576>
