- KE 594 (Middle Byzantine Regional Flask or Canteen) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 155
- Cited by
- SlaneWright1980b, pp. 548-549 (rev. KenchreaiIV: “middle Byzantine“)
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthXI, pp. 42, 184, no. 64, pl. III.B.a (C. Morgan)
- Description
- Flask or canteen (askodaulos). Tapering neck, grooved at attached to rounded body with flat front and back faces and outward sloping shoulder. One extant face is decorated with at least three concentric circles in dark paint; these overlap with the edge of the shoulder and their center is left of the neck; to left these circles is a straight (diagonal) stroke. Probably regional product, 10th-11th centuries.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Slightly granular fabric fired to very pale red with small to very small, angular and subrounded, light (lime) chunks. Surface pale (2.5Y 8/3, ”pale yellow”).
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 136, no. RC 75, pl. 38 (B. Adamsheck)
- Estimated diameter lower bound
- 0.14
- Estimated diameter lower bound
- 0.14
- Estimated diameter upper bound
- 0.165
- Wall thickness
- 0.009-0.012
- Other Dimensions
- 0.085-0.105 est. body Th.
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 7.5YR 8/4
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 594 (Middle Byzantine Regional Flask or Canteen).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0594>
