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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 444
- Bibliography
- KenchreaiIV, p. 137, no. RC 79, pl. 35 (B. Adamsheck)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- As far as can be observed through weathering: dark brown fabric; hard, gritty, rough surface9?); mixed, small, inclusions (dark red, black, and white calcareous visible). Uncertain surface finishing. Slightly asymmnetrial upper body circumference: leaning against something in kiln?
- Preservation comment
- Nine joining sherds preserve complete vessel (broken in recovery from seabed?). Slight, sparse abrasion and chipping; severely worn breaks; thick, irregular, massive marine encrustation, including thick calcareous coat, numerous vermetic casings, and one clam valve attached to lower wall at base. Long marine submersion but near surface.
- Base Diameter
- 0.0732
- Body diameter
- 0.1189
- Height
- 0.1814
- Other Dimensions
- L. mouth 0.0514
- Other Dimensions
- W. mouth 0.0395
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Pagescan
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“KE 1698 (Byzantine Trefoil-Mouth Jug).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1698>
