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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 476
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Typological identification comment
- Close Athenian copy of Late Roman North African lamp
- Comparanda
- sim. Bourgeois1980, p. 71, no. 29, pl. VII (same discus but different shoulder; Mactar)
- Comparanda
- sim. Bussiere2007, p. 127, no. C 703, pl. 52 (same discus but different shoulder; Musée d‘Hippone; from area)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Typical Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (unusually fine; orangish red), firing (hard), and surface (thin, uneven, matte slip, red to brownish red, over top and slightly over sides). Smoothed joining ridge and straight alignment at back of handle but upper handle twisted to right. Small fingernail(?) marks around lower wall.
- Preservation comment
- Six joining sherds preserve ca. 65% of lamp but missing part of right side. Moderate, extensive abrasion and frequent gouging, flaking, and chipping around edges; worn breaks; cloud of black discoloration around front lower part (secondary scorching).
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 82, no. 428, pl. 19 (H. Williams)
- Base Diameter
- 0.044
- Discus diameter
- 0.042
- Handle total height
- 0.048
- Length
- 0.119
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.077
- Weight (kg)
- 0.087
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.028
- Other Dimensions
- H. shoulder-top handle 0.020
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Dolphin (Visual Motif)
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1776 (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/ke1776>
