- KP1990-034 (Middle Roman Cooking Pot) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Cooking pot. Horizontal rim with rounded outer face and two grooves on upper face, inner one sloping down to form lid seating. Hemipherical body; broad groove just above mid-point. Ring foot, wide at base and narrowing to resting surface, i.e. triangular in section; broad groove on outer face.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Medium coarse fabric with frequent tiny white and gray bits especially visible in section; infrequent, well sorted, subrounded and subangular, small, white (calcitic) inclusions; and rare, well sorted, angular, small to medium, off-white and gray rocky(?) inclusions visible at surface; hackly break. Consistently fired hard. Surface shows slight smoothing. Turning marks visible on exterior.
- Preservation comment
- Two non-joining sherds preserve ca. 15% of rim, one non-joining sherd preserves ca. 15% of base sherd, and four body sherds. Very slight, sparse abrasion; mostly clean breaks.
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.095
- Estimated height
- 0.1
- Preserved height
- 0.068
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.22
- Wall thickness
- 0.004
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 6/6 (light red)
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“KP1990-034 (Middle Roman Cooking Pot).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kp1990-034>
