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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 525
- Typological identification
- Early-Middle Roman Italian Lamp
- Comparanda
- sim. Benoit 1958, pp. 8-9, fig. 4 (shipwreck near l‘Île du Levant, Toulon, Provence).
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Dark reddish orange fabric, consistently fired; hard, slightly gritty; uncommon to common, poorly sorted,tiny to small, dark gray and mostly black inclusions, very rare lime specks; sparse, tiny golden micaceous sparkles. Thin, even, dull wash over surface smoothed, fired slightly darker than fabric.
- Preservation comment
- Intact but missing handle and front corners of nozzle. Moderate, somewhat sparse abrasion and minor chipping around edges; worn breaks; scattered specks of encrustation especially on bottom.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 12, no. 52, pl. 2 (misnumbered in concordance; H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.051
- Body diameter
- 0.0729
- Discus diameter
- 0.0571
- Height
- 0.0424
- Preserved length
- 0.1018
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1989 (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/ke1989>
