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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 320
- Typological identification
- Byzantine Glazed Pottery
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthXI, p. 244, no. 725, pl. XXIX:a (C. Morgan)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Yellowish white fired slightly darker at surface. Somewhat hard, slightly gritty fabric; smooth break. Common tiny bits, poorly sorted, including subrounded lime and rarer gray and black. Even, thin, pale white wash as undercoat; even, glossy glaze, thicker in grooves and irregularly accumulated on bottom; minute crazing; dark green but mottled; peeling in large flakes. Faint turning scratches across body.
- Preservation comment
- Eight joining sherds preserve complete cup. Moderate abrasion and chipping around edges; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, pp. 100-101, no. LRB 36, pl. 25 (B. Adamsheck)
- Base Diameter
- 0.0301
- Height
- 0.0488
- Rim diameter
- 0.0864
- Wall thickness
- 0.0032
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1209 (Middle Byzantine Plain-Glazed Mug).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1209>
