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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- ROMANE|ƧIƧ| ○
- Logical part of
- Area C (north end of harbor, including mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 494
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp, Knidian
- Comparanda
- Signature cf. CIL XV.2.I, no. 665.8.4 (Italy)
- Comparanda
- Signature cf. Heres1968, pp. 93, 208, no. 63, fig. 2, pl. 33:7 (discus has rosette; Louvre; beginning 2nd century)
- Comparanda
- cf. DélosXXVI, p. 128, no. 2608, pl. 30 (P. Bruneau)
- Description
- Scallop shell.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (faintly micaceous, pinkish hue), firing, and surface treatment (dark orange slip has faint metallic sheen).
- Preservation comment
- Complete lamp in two large sherds but missing small chips from discus. Slight, sparse abrasion and minor chipping; slip mostly preserved, slightly worn breaks; very rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 30, no. 139, pl. 6 (H. Williams)
- Body Height
- 0.023
- Length
- 0.095
- Weight (kg)
- 0.069
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Shell (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1879 (Early Roman Asia Minor Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1879>
