KP368 (Late Roman Near Eastern Cooking Pot) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cooking Pot
Comparanda
Cf. CATHMA1991, pp. 39, 41-42, figs. 31, 32 (Cooking pot type 13/14, 6th century?), citing Touma1984, vol. 1, pp. 46-48, nos. 42-58, vol. 2, fig. 26.31 (Ras ibn Hani, Syria)
Comparanda
cf. CavalazziFabbri2010, p. 624, fig. 6.10 (Classe, Ravenna, context: late 5th-first half 6th century)
Contributor Notes
JLR (2005) revised significantly MorisonRife2022.
Description
Convex upper body constricts to neck, marked by groove. Inward-thickened rim with tapered lip. Flat oval, grooved loop handle attaches to upper rim.
Fabric, firing, surface
2.5Y 3/1, very dark gray. Hard, gritty fabric with frequent mica and frequent, well-sorted, small, spherical and subrounded, white and brown sandy inclusions. Northern Levantine.
Preservation description
Two joining fragments preserve 25% of neck and rim and the upper handle attachment. Slight chipping.
Published as
MorisonRife2022, pp. 606, 718, 719, no. 229, fig. 17.57
Preserved height
0.037
Preserved width
0.085
Estimated rim diameter
0.132
Chronology comment
Dated late 5th-6th century.
Has geographic origin
Syria
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Photograph