- KE 359 (Middle Byzantine Green and Brown Painted Two-Handled Mug) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 72
- Typological identification
- Byzantine Glazed Pottery
- Comparanda
- CorinthXI, p. 215, no. 412 (but larger; C. Morgan)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Red with a tinge of orange; somewhat hard, fine fabric with smooth break; rare, poorly sorted, lime specks and dark gray to black bits. Yellowish white fired slightly darker at surface. Somewhat hard, slightly gritty fabric; smooth to vaguel hackly break. Common tiny bits, poorly sorted, including subrounded lime and rarer gray and black. Even, thin, pale white wash as undercoat?; even, semiglossy glaze, thicker in grooves, bright white, over whole vessel but bottom reserved. Swirls in brown and green thinly painted. Faint turning grooves on interior and exterior; base is irregular.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve entire cup. Slight, sparse abrasion and large chips from lip; clean breaks; scattered specks to patches of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, pp. 102-103, no. LRB 44, pl. 25 (B. Adamsheck)
- Body diameter
- 0.0869
- Height
- 0.0668
- Rim diameter
- 0.0871
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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“KE 359 (Middle Byzantine Green and Brown Painted Two-Handled Mug).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0359>
