KP441 (Early Byzantine Globular Cooking Pot) [permalink] [show fewer 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]
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph
Photograph