- KP441 (Early Byzantine Globular Cooking Pot) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Globular cookpot with short thickened rim, flat on top, sloping underside creating triangular profile. Rim is offset from wall on exterior. Body curves smoothly towards base.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Hard, granular fabric with reddish gray core and brownish red interior surface; smudged outer surface, in part due to use. Frequent, large, well sorted, rounded, subrounded, and elongated calcareous chunks visible on all surfaces and in breaks; other varied tiny bits, many light. Exterior has turning marks on body, somewhat narrower under rim and fading towards base; interior has more varied marks, most frequent in upper portion above widest point of vessel. Entire surface thinly slipped. Exterior has signs of brush smoothing by irregular strokes, perhaps when vessel stationary.
- Preservation comment
- Three joining sherds, one large sherd with ca. 5-8% of rim and two smaller body sherds, preserve profile down to very near base. Very small portion of rim preserved; dimensions of the vessel are recoverable from the large portion of body circumference extant. Slight, extensive abrasion and scratching; clean breaks; sparse specks of encrustations.
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.2
- Preserved height
- 0.172
- Preserved width
- 0.117
- Wall thickness
- 0.0062
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 5/1
- Surface (slip) Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 5/6 [Interior surface]
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“KP441 (Early Byzantine Globular 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/kp441>
