- KE 1484 (Roman Amphora with Dipinto) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 380
- Typological identification
- Unclassified Amphora
- Description
- Tapering upper body with strong turn to low sloping shoulder. Red dipinto in Latin just above turn to shoulder.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pinkish core with buff surface; consistently fired. Fine, hard; slightly granular break. Rare to uncommon, well sorted, tiny black and white bits; rare golden mica; rare, rounded, lime particles at surface. Wet smoothed.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 20% of shoulder with traces of dipinto. Slight, sparse abrasion with minor gouging; worn breaks; sparse small, thin patches of encruatation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 117, no. RC 22j, pl. 30 (B. Adamsheck)
- Preserved height
- 0.0673
- Preserved width
- 0.1362
- Preserved width
- 0.31
- Wall thickness
- 0.0063
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Pagescan
- Photograph
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“KE 1484 (Roman Amphora with Dipinto).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1484>
