- KE 1576 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 416
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Typological identification
- Signature, mark, or legend (lamp)
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Typical fabric (pale red but surface more orange; hard), firing, and surface treatment (unslipped but smoothed?). Slight misaligned at seam but smoothed.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 70% of discus and adjacent shoulder, entire handle, and ca. 45% of base and adjacent wall but missing nozzle. Slight, moderate abrasion and pitting; splitting along back right seam; worn breaks; rare thin patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 66, no. 354 (H. Williams)
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.039
- Discus length
- 0.032
- Handle total height
- 0.047
- Height base to shoulder
- 0.033
- Height shoulder to handle
- 0.014
- Preserved length
- 0.0799
- Preserved width
- 0.0531
- Weight (kg)
- 0.051
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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