- KE 1903 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 499
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- cf. Ke 951 and lamps cited there.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (pale red), firing, and surface (smoothed). Flattened, smoothed seam and slight left misalignment at handle.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve ca. 65% of upper middle to left part of lamp, including over one-half of discus, left shoulder up to middle of nozzle, and upper handle. Moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion and minor gouging; somewhat worn breaks; faint white patches of white discoloration (calcareous?).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 62, no. 309 (H. Williams)
- Discus length
- 0.039
- Preserved length
- 0.088
- Preserved width
- 0.048
- Weight (kg)
- 0.04
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1903 (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/ke1903>
