- KE 1154 (Roman Tripolitanian Amphora with Stamp) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 301
- Typological identification
- Tripolitanian Amphora
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Core: brick red; interior surface (5-6mm) dark grayish brown; exterior surface (1m mm) brown. Slightly coarse, hard; hackly break; rough and sandy surface. Numerous very small, rounded, sand inclusions (quartzitic; pale bits); one angular chunk of charcoal; rare, subangular, medium chunks of lime opening at surface.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 35% of rim and neck with one upper handle attachment. Slight, sparse abrasion; somewhat worn breaks; patches of gray encrustation in grooves.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 112, no. RC 8d (B. Adamsheck)
- Estimated diameter upper bound
- 0.168
- Preserved height
- 0.1603
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.126
- Rim Height
- 0.0388
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KE 1154 (Roman Tripolitanian Amphora with Stamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1154>
