- KM477 (Early-Middle Roman Asia Minor Askos or Figurine) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Zoomorphic askos, or less likely a large figurine. Erect right ear, handmade and incised, luted onto top of head with gentle curve flattening at top. Appears to be a dog. Very finely crafted, as Knidian products.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: surface (2.5 mm) red, core dark gray; very fine, smooth break: rare, well sorted, very small, rounded, white (calcitic) inclusions; golden micaceous at break and surface. Consistently fired very hard. Thin, even, semiglossy slip, faint metallic sheen, slightly more red than fabric. Exterior carefully smoothed; details sharply incised. Southwestern Asia Minor, overall manufacture and material as Knidian production.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves one ear of figure and small part of adjacent head. Well preserved surface but slightly worn breaks(?) and extensive, thin encrustation on breaks and in details of incised relief.
- Preserved height
- 0.042
- Preserved length
- 0.045
- Preserved width
- 0.042
- Wall thickness
- 0.0051
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Dog or Wolf (Visual Motif)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5R 5/8
- Surface (slip) Munsell reading
- 10R 5/6
- Drawing
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“KM477 (Early-Middle Roman Asia Minor Askos or Figurine).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/km477>
