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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 451
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 151, no. 1743-1752, pl. 30 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 233, no. 3539, pl. 56 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric, firing, and surface treatment (thin, unveven, reddish slip). High, thin webbing along right front edge of handle. Bits of clay plugging handle loop from before firing.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 8% of back discus and small part of adjacent shoulder, entire handle and adjacent wall, and small part of back base. Slight, sparse abrasion and rare gouges; worn breaks; rare specks to patches of encrustation.
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.054
- Handle total height
- 0.044
- Preserved length
- 0.0444
- Preserved width
- 0.0452
- Weight (kg)
- 0.019
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.034
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.01
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KE 1721 (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/ke1721>
