- Ke 2455 (Late Roman Corinthian Lamp) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Comment
- Inventory number created and object studied in 2022; subject number created by H. Williams in ca. 1972.
- Logical part of
- Area C (north end of harbor, including mole)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 580
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Corinthian or Regional Lamp, copy/imitation Athenian
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraVII, p. 142, no. 1410, 1411, pls. 26, 35 (comparable style; J. Perlzweig)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (yellowish red, rare varied small bits including sparse, small, subrounded lime chunks, some exploding at surface); hard fired; smoothed surface slightly pinker than core. Late Roman red lamp fabric. Smoothed band at seam. Retouching mostly in shoulder design but in a few details of lion. Stamp on bottom appears fresh.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 80% of discus, ca. 40% of right shoulder, back to right nozzle, and ca. 20% of front base and adjacent wall. Slight, extensive abrasion and minor scratching and chipping; somewhat worn breaks; scarce small patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 56, no. 253, pl. 11 (H. Williams misidentified in concordance)
- Preserved height
- 0.034
- Preserved length
- 0.062
- Preserved width
- 0.052
- Weight (kg)
- 0.029
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Lion (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“Ke 2455 (Late Roman Corinthian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke2455>
