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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area UA (Underwater at south mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 523
- Typological identification
- Early/Middle Roman Asia Minor Lamp
- Typological identification comment
- Format: Loeschcke Typus I A=Broneer Type XXII=Dressel Form 9=Bailey Type A Group i (Augustan-Tiberian)
- Typological identification comment
- Shoulder: Loeschcke Schulterform I
- Comparanda
- cf. BussièreWohl2017, Getty Lamps on-line, no. 80 (identified as “southern Anatolia“)
- Comparanda
- sim. Augustan imagery on ceramic emblemata from bowls: vonGonzenbach1968, pp. 88-91, nos. 10, 11, figs. 6, 7 (from Collection Eugène Piot and Paris)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (fine with varied inclusions but micaceous, pinkish hue), firing (hard), and surface description (somewhat thick, even slip; where visible orangish or reddish brown but mottled).
- Preservation comment
- Six joining sherds preserve most of discus, entire nozzle, entire base and adjacent walls. Slight, sparse abrasion and minor chipping around edges; slightly worn breaks; sparse patches of encrustation; overall very friable. Weathering consistent with long marine submersion.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 16, no. 54, pl. 2 (“perhaps eastern Aegean, late first century B.C.“; H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.042
- Height
- 0.036
- Length
- 0.111
- Weight (kg)
- 0.065
- Width
- 0.082
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Religious Symbol or Object (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1987 (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/ke1987>
