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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- Ⲥ - Ⲱ
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 455 a, b
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 154, nos. 1871-1917, pl. 31 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 280, no. 4510, pl. 76 (B. Böttger)
- Conservation
- 2022 July: mending with UHU Hart (G. Blasdel).
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: pale reddish orange, fired slightly more pale at surface; hard, cracking at surface; gritty texture, granular break; uncommon, small, well sorted, white and rare, small, black and red(?) inclusions). Consistently fired. Surface: unslipped; smoothed. Clean alignment and smoothing at seam.
- Preservation comment
- Five joining sherds (a+b) preserve ca. 60% of lamp, including most of discus, over one-half of left and right shoulder, entire handle, and roughly one-third of walls and base. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion and rare scratching and chipping; somewhat worn breaks; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 68, no. 370b (H. Williams)
- Handle total height
- 0.0445
- Preserved length
- 0.092
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.044
- Weight (kg)
- 0.058
- Width
- 0.071
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.0317
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.0128
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KE 1726 (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/ke1726>
