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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 478
- Typological identification
- Late Roman/Early Byzantine Athenian Lamp, copy or imitation North African
- Typological identification comment
- Athenian copy of Late Roman African lamp
- Comparanda
- Motif of palm-tree is common on Late North African lamps with different shoulders: e.g., Delattre1880, pp. 22-24, no. IX (Carthage); Selesnow1988, p. 160, no. 256, pl. 35 (Liebighaus Museum Alter Plastik, Frankfurt)
- Comparanda
- cf. Athenian copy of North African lamp: AgoraVII, pp. 176-177, no. 2425, pl. 39 (J. Perlzweig)
- Comparanda
- sim. Late Roman Corinthian or regional copies of North African lamp(s): CorinthIV.2, pp. 289-290, nos. 1492-1500, pl. XXII (O. Broneer)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Athenian lamp fabric (strong red; rather fine; smooth to granular break), firing (hard), and surface (orangish red, uneven, semiglossy slip brushed irregularly across top and sides). Smoothed seam and surface and fingerprints on back wall. Small rosette in relief on base scratched out with hashmarks in mold.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserve ca. 50% from back of lamp, including large portions of discus, base, and shoulder and most of handle but missing uppermost part. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion; worn breaks; scattered, thick specks to small patches of encrustation on all surfaces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 80, no. 413, pl. 19 (H. Williams)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.061
- Estimated discus diameter
- 0.034
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.035
- Preserved length
- 0.047
- Preserved width
- 0.051
- Weight (kg)
- 0.036
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.031
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 1788 (Late Roman North African Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <https://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1788>
