Flat base with slight constriction just above in places. Cylindrical body, slightly bulging to one side. High, inward-sloping rim with rounded lip and horizontal flange. Two rounded ribbon handles, pressed in at middle, attach to body just above midpoint. Two bands of incised waves on body, separated by one incised band and enclosed by one additional incised band above and two below. Seven painted bands, from bottom to top: two black, three red, two black. Slightly asymmetrical, tilted to one side.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fabric (interior): 2.5YR 6/6, light red; (exterior): 10YR 7/3, very pale brown. Painted decoration: 2.5YR 4/4, reddish brown, to 2.5YR 5/6, red. Somewhat hard, fine fabric with rare mica, common, small to very small, white, brown and gray inclusions (cf. KP1990-030). Thin, uneven, dull, flaky paint.
Preservation comment
28 large joining fragments (313+321) and seven nonjoining fragments preserve almost complete base and lower body and roughly two thirds of upper body and rim. Slight erosion, severe abrasion, sparse gouging and chipping; thick, extensive encrustation. Paint survives only in very faint traces.
“KP313+321 (Early Roman Regional Cinerary Urn).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/gaek/kp313>