- KE 1255 (Eastern Sigillata A Dish) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 335
- Typological identification
- Unclassified Eastern Sigillata A
- Typological identification comment
- Form is not in Hayes1985 but it may be a dish-version of the cups Forms 45 and 46.
- Conservation
- 1960s: rejoined with shellac and infilled with white plaster painted gray.
- Description
- Small dish with flaring rim and ring foot. Low flaring rim is offset from floor by short rounded rise that curves to a concave band forming most of the inner rim profile. Simple rounded lip. Outer face of the rim is rounded over a distinct flange. Short ring foot is marked off from outer floor by slightly irregular tooling. Underside of the is nearly flat, with distinct fine turning spiral. Overall profile of rim is similar to the rims of ESA Hayes Form 45 and 46 cups that are themselves slightly simplified and more rounded versions of Italian cups; but this piece is too flat to be called a cup, more of a dish.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric discolored by marine submersion. Some voids from turning on exterior. Slip dark red where most thickly preserved.
- Preservation comment
- Four joining sherds preserve profile and small percentage of rim in two parts. Extensive abrasion and rare chipping and gouging; worn breaks? Weathering consistent with long marine submersion.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 58, no. ER 28, pl. 15 (B. Adamsheck)
- Base Diameter
- 0.086
- Rim diameter
- .15
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.15
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Pagescan
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1255 (Eastern Sigillata A Dish).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1255>
