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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 426
- Typological identification
- Howland Type 45 Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Howland Type 45B (dated third quarter 3rd c.) = Scheibler Typ M-FSL (dated 250-200)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: fine; medium red; rare, small, well sorted white abnd black bits, rare medium angular white chunks (lime?), faintly micaceous. Hard fired. Thin, even, semimatte slip, brownish red, on exterior and interior.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve ca. 35% of left shoulder and left base of nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion and pitting; large chip from front left; worn breaks; thin, extensive film of encrustation.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.065
- Preserved height
- 0.013
- Preserved length
- 0.062
- Preserved width
- 0.031
- Weight (kg)
- 0.011
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1615 (Middle Hellenistic 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/ke1615>
