KE 40 (Early Roman Italian Thin-Walled Ware Bowl) [permalink] [show more links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
P 15
Typological identification
Italian Thin-Walled Ware Marabini Moevs Form 36
Comparanda
Numerous unpublished examples from Corinth cited by B. Adamsheck.
Comparanda
MarabiniMoevs1973, p. 222, no. 412, pl. 44 (“Gray Thin Walled Ware of Alpine Manufacture“ Form XXXVI, Group D: shallow hemispherical bowl with barbotine floral decoration; Cosa, Augustan)
Comparanda
sim. Hayes1973, pp. 461-462, no. 192, pl. 89 (ware and decoration but form varies?; South Stoa, Corinth)
Description
Thin-walled open form: cup or bowl. Upper wall straight, sloping inward. Sharp lip flares slightly outward. Barbotine decoration on upper wall: thin groove; above, band of horizontal branches and leaves; above, row of dots; above, thin groove.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Medium fine, clean-breaking fabric with frequent, well sorted, small, clear or pale inclusions (quartzitic); pimply surface.
Preservation comment
One small sherd preserves <5% of rim and upper body. Slight, sparse abrasion around edges; worn breaks; very thin film of encrustation.
Published as
KenchreaiIV, p. 73, no. ER 65, pl. 19 (B. Adamsheck)
Preserved height
0.025
Preserved width
0.035
Estimated rim diameter
0.102
Wall thickness
0.0017
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
File
Photograph
Suggested citation
“KE 40 (Early Roman Italian Thin-Walled Ware Bowl).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0040>