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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 456
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- cf. AgoraVII, p. 142, nos. 1414-1416, pl. 27 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- cf. KerameikosXVI, p. 287, nos. 4618, 4619, pl. 79 (same era but slightly later than Ke1728?; dated mid-5th century; B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (reddish brown core to reddish orange surface (1-2 mm); gritty texture, slightly granular break; small, well sorted inclusions; rare, small, rounded voids at surface), firing, and surface treatment (unslipped; smoothed). Cleanly smoothed seam.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves most of lamp but missing middle to back base and walls. Moderate to severe, extensive erosion and abrasion(?), surface flaking to delaminating; worn breaks; extensive film of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 64, no. 332, pl. 15 (H. Williams)
- Handle total height
- 0.0257
- Length
- 0.0939
- Weight (kg)
- 0.056
- Width
- 0.0598
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1728 (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/ke1728>
