- KE 590 (Late Roman/Early Byzantine Ampulla with Stamps) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Area E (north side of harbor)
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 151
- Typological identification
- “Early Christian” Ampulla with Stamp
- Cited by
- Metaxas2005, p. 82, no. 25, pl. 2
- Comparanda
- cf. KTH2041
- Comparanda
- cf. Hayes1971a, p. 244, n. 11=SlaneSanders2005, pp. 269, 272, nos. 3-34 to 3-39, fig. 10 (Baths of Aphrodite, Corinth, context dated end of 6th century)
- Comparanda
- sim. Ke0579-P0140b
- Description
- Late unguentarium with heavy construction. Compact fusiform body; toe roughly finished by hand. Upper part slipped. Two deep rectangular incuse stamps just above toe (H. 0.0135mm): monograms in shallow relief.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Bluish gray core; surface (0.5 mm) fired pale red. Hard, fine; smooth to conchoidal break. Rare, tiny to very small, black and white inclusions; very rare, small, rounded voids. Exterior shows hand-fashioning (roughly broken bottom; various gouges and slices before firing) and wet smoothing; prominent spiral groove up from toe on interior. Slip: drip and cloud of thin, uneven, pale reddish brown, semilustrous slip down one side.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves lower part of vessel. Surface in good condition but rare gouging; worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation around stamps.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 123, no. RC 40b, pl. 33 (B. Adamsheck)
- Maximum diameter
- 0.0451
- Preserved height
- 0.0733
- Wall thickness
- 0.0068-0.0072
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 10R 6/4 (surface)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- GLEY 2 6/1 (core)
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