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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 356
- Typological identification
- Middle/Late Roman Athenian lamp, early glazed
- Comparanda
- Motif: cf. KL034+KL274
- Comparanda
- Motif: cf. KerameikosXVI, pp. 100-104, nos. 217-323, pls. 8-9 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical fabric (pale red to pinkish buff; hard), firing (uneven from top to bottom), and surface treatment (purplish slip; somewhat thick, even, matte). Well smoothed seam. Plugs of clay in handle loop from before firing.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves small part of discus and ca. 15% of back shoulder, entire handle, entire base and most of walls but missing nozzle. Slight, extensive abrasion and minor pitting; worn breaks.
- Base Diameter
- 0.0322
- Handle total height
- 0.049
- Preserved length
- 0.104
- Preserved width
- 0.079
- Weight (kg)
- 0.066
- Other Dimensions
- 0.033
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.016
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Athena/Minerva (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1311 (Middle-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/ke1311>
