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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 490
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Conservation
- 1960s; mending with shellac, and joins covered with thin strips of plaster.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: buff; smooth break; somewhat soft; slightly coarse, with uncommon to common, small, well sorted, rounded to subrounded, white, black, gray and red, and opaque (quartzitic?) inclusions. Consistently fired. Slip: dark brown to black; thin? semimatte? surface only in faint, small patches. Surface smoothed. Wide indentations and ridges on interior from pressing into mold.
- Preservation comment
- Eleven joining sherds preserves ca. 55% of middle to back base and adjacent walls up to edge of shoulder. Extensive, moderate abrasion and frequent pitting; worn breaks; scattered patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 23, no. 110 (H. Williams)
- Weight (kg)
- 0.019
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1869 (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/ke1869>
