- KP1956-034 (Late Byzantine North Italian Roulette-Ware Bowl) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Byzantine Glazed Pottery
- Typological identification comment
- Gelichi‘s Roulette Ware=Williams‘ Veneto Ware=Vroom2005, Type LByz/Fr 13
- Comparanda
- See gen. MacKay1967, pp. 254-255, nos. 11-13, fig. 1, pl. 62
- Comparanda
- See gen. WilliamsZervos1992, pp. 151-154, fig. 7
- Description
- Deep carinated bowl. Slightly splayed ring foot has concave outer face. Wall slightly convex below carination and flaring straight above. Six overlapping rows of chattering (“rouletting“) on upper exterior. Ca. late 13th-early 14th century.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- 2.5YR 6/8 (reddish orange). Fabric is somewhat hard, medium fine, with few, small, subrounded to subangular, inclusions (sandy?). Thin, even, white slip. Somewhat thick, most even, mottled, bright green glaze fired hot to create craquelure and numerous clustered bubbles on all surfaces.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves small part of upper body. Slight, sparse chipping around edges; specks of encrustation; incipient vitreous erosion.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.16
- Preserved height
- 0.051
- Wall thickness
- 0.007-0.013
- Has geographic origin
- Italy
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KP1956-034 (Late Byzantine North Italian Roulette-Ware Bowl).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kp1956-034>
