KP411 (Ottoman-Early Modern Slip-Painted-Ware Pitcher) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Ottoman Pottery

Typological identification comment

Late Slip-Painted ware. See Vroom2003, pp. 174–175, 215, 225, nos. W 30.2, W 30.5, figs. 6:35, 6:45 (Boiotia, 16th–18th century; example cited from Corinth)

Description

Convex body: jug or pitcher? Curvature suggests fragment from shoulder. Exterior has white slip painted broadly in two lines and a loop and yellow glaze; interior has wheel ridging.

Fabric, firing, surface

Fabric: 2.5YR 5/8, red. Slip: white. Glaze: yellow (PMS 1345). Hard, medium-coarse fabric with frequent, small, rounded, white (lime) inclusions and small, angular, gold sparkling inclusions; frequent, small, angular voids. Very thick, even, dull slip. Thick, even, semilustrous glaze shows crazing.

Preservation comment

One fragment preserves small part of upper(?) body. Slight, very sparse abra-sion, pitting, and gouging.

Published as

Gregory2022, p. 748, no. 290, fig. 18.6

Preserved height

0.047

Preserved width

0.038

Belongs to Historical Period

Early Modern (Historical Period)

Belongs to Historical Period

Ottoman (Historical Period)

Material

Ceramic (Material)

Drawing

Photograph