KE 851 (Phocaean Red-Slip Stamp) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
P 231
Typological identification
Phocaean Red Slip
Comparanda
sim. LRP, pp. 354-355, Motif 35 (5th c.), fig. 74:w (though tail more rounded here)
Description
Dish with low ring foot. Two wide bands of concentric rouletting on extant floor, a single stamp between bands: hare running right, missing forepart of body and head.
Description
Stamp: hare running right between two bands of rouletting. Hayes Group III (late 5th-early 6th centuries).
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Slightly coarse reddish fabric with occasional small light, calcareous inclusions. Slip slightly darker, thickest on interior, not well smoothed, near plain on exterior.
Preservation comment
One sherd preserves ca. 20% of circumference of base and adjacent floor. Very slight, sparse abrasion with pitting and scratching; mostly clean breaks.
Published as
KenchreaiIV, no. LRB 35d, pp. 98-99, pl. 24 (B. Adamsheck)
Estimated base diameter
0.168
Preserved height
0.0173
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Rabbit or Hare (Visual Motif)
Fabric Munsell reading
10R 6/8 (light red)
Drawing
File
Photograph