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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 145
- Description
- Amphora. Wide, low sloping (or rounded?) shoulder; dense combing on upper wall. Graffito of large Greek letter in sharp deep strokes, inscribed before firing, on shoulder up to turn to neck: K[ ].
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pink to pale red fabric, consistently fired. Fine, medium hard; smooth to slightly conchoidal break. Uncommon, well sorted, small, rounded, angular, and tabular white (calcareous) inclusions; faintly micaceous. Variant of LRA2 southern Argolid fabric? “Consistently fired red.“
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves part of shoulder and upper body. Faint, sparse abrasion and chipping around edge; mostly clean breaks; wide, thin and inconsistent film of white encrustation.
- Maximum preserved dimension
- 0.138
- Preserved height
- 0.056
- Wall thickness
- 0.0133
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 584 (Roman Amphora with Graffito).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0584>
