- KE 273 (Early-Middle Roman Asia Minor Sigillata Bowl) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 58
- Description
- Some interior scratching from use.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Orange fabric with a faint tinge of red; slightly soft, fine; smooth to laminar break; uncommon, tiny, white (including limestone or calcite) and black bits; rare tiny micaceous sparkles. Thin, matte slip over all surfaces, variable in thickness, fired to darker red and mottled; peeling in large flakes inside. Slight turning scratches on lower body and smoothing marks on upper body (above carination). Western Asia Minor but not Pergamene, Ephesian, or Knidian.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining fragments preserve complete vessel. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion and chipping and flaking around edges; mostly clean breaks; no visible encrustation (but cleaned).
- Base Diameter
- 0.0442
- Height
- 0.0469
- Rim diameter
- 0.0908
- Wall thickness
- 0.0031
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 273 (Early-Middle Roman Asia Minor Sigillata Bowl).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0273>
