7.5YR 6/8, red. Hard, medium fine, with smooth break and slightly powdery surface texture. Uncommon, poorly sorted, small, tabular, subangular, and rounded, white (calcareous) inclusions visible in section and surface; rare, small, varied, gray to black inclusions. Surface faintly smoothed. Cretan.
Preservation description
One large fragment preserves ca. 25% of shoulder, entire neck, ca. 55% of rim, one entire handle, and upper attachment of other handle. Moderate chipping; moderate patches of natural encrustation, not mortar.
Published as
MorisonRife2022, pp. 615, 734, 735, no. 268, fig. 17.67 (“Regional fractional form; late derivative of Cretan? ... 5th to 6th century“)
