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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing
- true
- Writing transcription
- ΔΙΟΝ|Ε̣ΙΚΟΥ
- Logical part of
- Area B (northwest side of harbor)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 54
- Typological identification
- North Syrian Mortarium
- Description
- Large mortarium. Thick flaring upper wall, slightly convex. Heavy drooping rim. Rim has sharp turn from inner wall to flat upper face and then turns down to rounded outer edge; slight tooled hook underneath, with rounded transition to outer wall. Five light turning grooves on interior wall just below rim, perhaps not intentional. Stamp in two lines across rim: ΔΙΟΝ|Ε̣ΙΚΟΥ, traces of simple box-frame above ΟΝ in line 1.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Coarse fabric fired to “weak red’ (10R 5/4) with frequent inclusions: occasional large black angular chunks and rounded lime; very frequent small bits including angular reddish, angular light, and angular black; other tiny bits. Surface self-slipped, very slight darker than fabric.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 7% of rim and small part of uppermost wall. Slight to moderate, extensive abrasion and pitting; worn breaks.
- Published as
- Hayes1967a, p. 346, no. 153.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 142, no. RC 92, fig. 11 (B. Adamsheck).
- Preserved height
- 0.063
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.58
- Wall thickness
- 0.014
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 10R 5/4
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 268 (Late Roman North Syrian Mortarium).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0268>
