- KP449 (Late Roman Red-Slip Dish) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Kenchreai Cemetery Project Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Wide plate. Flat floor; very low ring base with pointed resting surface but rounded on both face. Perhaps low curving walls.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Very fine fabric fired to consistent pale brownish-red. Uncommon small, dark, angular bits, many visible flattened on underside; rare tiny dark bits visible in break; micaceous. Slip is slightly darker and redder than fabric where best preserved, though distinctly lighter and more brown than typical Phocaean Red-Slip. In its original state slip was very well smoothed. Underside is essentially plain with brush marks. Central or southern Greek?
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserving ca. 5% of base and small part of lower wall. Slip is worn on interior but preserves original well-smoothed surface in patches. Slight chipping around edges; somewhat worn breaks; wide areas of thin, patchy brownish white encrustation.
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.36
- Base Diameter preserved
- 5.0
- Preserved height
- 0.011
- Preserved width
- 0.086
- Wall thickness
- 0.0027-0.0031
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 5YR 7/8
- Surface (slip) Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 7/8
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“KP449 (Late Roman Red-Slip Dish).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kcp/kp449>
