- KP442 (Beirut 8 Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Beirut 8 Amphora
- Description
- Amphora. Steeply conical lower body. Concave toe, slightly domed; very small button on underside.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 2.5YR 5/6 (red). Gritty, brownish-red fabric with abundant, well sorted, varied dark and light, rarely red, inclusions, predominantly rounded to subrounded, some large but mostly small to tiny; granular break. Consistently fired. Sandy or “pimply” surface texture. Typical Beirut City fabric.
- Preservation comment
- Eight sherds total, three largest joining, preserve ca. 70% of base and lower wall. Slight, extensive abrasion; mostly clean breaks; thin patches of pale brown, gritty encrustation on interior and exterior surface.
- Base Diameter
- 0.054
- Base Diameter preserved
- 70.0
- Preserved height
- 0.134
- Wall thickness
- 0.0078
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 5/6 red
- Drawing
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“KP442 (Beirut 8 Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kp442>
