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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 480
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typ IA=Dressel Form 9=Broneer Type XXII=Bailey Type A group i (Augustan-Tiberian)
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke Schulterform IIa
- Comparanda
- Format cf. BMLII, pp. 129, 131, no. Q 761, pl. 1 (Samnite and hoplomachus; from Pozzuoli, late 1st century B.C.E.-early 1st century C.E.; D. M. Bailey)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: buff, yellowish; smooth break; fine, with rare, very small to small, well sorted, rounded and subrounded, white, black, and gray-red inclusions. Consistently fired. Chocolate brown; thin, somewhat uneven, semimatte slip survives in large patches.
- Preservation comment
- One small fragment preserves front right discus, adjacent shoulder, and side to back of nozzle. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion with minor pitting; worn breaks; specks to chunks of encrustation in grooves.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 23, no. 112 (H. Williams)
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.059
- Preserved length
- 0.0339
- Preserved width
- 0.0306
- Weight (kg)
- 0.002
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 1794 (Early Roman Italian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1794>
