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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 328
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
- Comparanda
- sim. Butcher1982, pp. 141, 146, no. TC.3M 540, fig. 6.1, pl. 6.1 (Thorikos)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (brown with tinge of red; dense), firing (very hard), and surface treatment (smoothed). Misaligned seam.
- Preservation comment
- Intact lamp but missing nozzle. Slight, extensive abrasion; worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation. Postdepositional scorching across surfaces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 66, no. 353 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.027
- Handle total height
- 0.04
- Base Length
- 0.0434
- Preserved length
- 0.0689
- Preserved width
- 0.0574
- Weight (kg)
- 0.078
- Base Width
- 0.0299
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.028
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.012
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1215 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1215>
