- KE 678 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cretan Amphora with graffito) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 184
- Typological identification
- Graffito (pottery or lamp)
- Typological identification
- Late Antique Cretan Amphora
- Comparanda
- cf. PortaleRomeo2000, pp. 422, 423, fig. 4:37 (Gortyn inv. no. 91PB/69-70/600/3)
- Comparanda
- cf. PortaleRomeo2001, pp. 304-305, pl. XLIV:h (tipo TRC2 orlo h; Gortyn, dated second half 6th-first half 7th century)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Light pinkish brown fired to pale brown (“hazelnut“) near the surfaces (2-5 mm). Medium hard, medium fine, with smooth break and slightly powdery surface texture. Rare, small, tabular and spherical, white (calcareious) inclusions; very rare to rare, tiny to small, subrounded, gray to black inclusions. Thin, even slip, pale buff (lighter than fired surface), flaking extensively. Fine brushmarks from smoothing around neck.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 60% of rim with most of neck and part of shoulder, with one upper handle. Slight, faint abrasion with flaking and chipping around edge; somewhat worn breaks.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 112, no. RC 8a (B. Adamsheck)
- Maximum diameter
- 0.175
- Preserved height
- 0.1893
- Rim diameter
- 0.0724
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KE 678 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cretan Amphora with graffito).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke0678>
