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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Comment
- Sherd has wrong subject number written on it (L504 for L505 as in registry).
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 504
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Aegean Lamp
- Comparanda
- cf. GerousiBendermacher2013, pp. 149, 162, no. 232 (Late Antique Aegean type B2; from Perissa, Thera, dated 7th c.)
- Comparanda
- sim. DelosXXVI, p. 143, no. 4727, pl. 34 (P. Bruneau)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pinkish, faintly micaceous), firing, and surface treatment (thin, even wash slightly lighter than fabric); cf. Ke0737. Slightly ridged seam.
- Preservation comment
- One sherds preserves ca. 40% of upper lamp, including central to left discuss, left shoulder, and very base of nozzle. Slight, sparse abrasion and minor chipping around edges; worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 73, no. 385, pl. 17 (H. Williams)
- Weight (kg)
- 0.015
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1909 (Early Byzantine Aegean Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1909>
