Format: Loeschcke Form IV without handles=Broneer XXIII=Bailey Type B Group iv (Claudian-Trajanic)
Typological identification comment
Shoulder: Loeschcke Schulterform VIIb
Comparanda
sim. BMLII, pp. 85-86, 177, 178, no. Q 936, pl. 18, fig. 100 (D. M. Bailey; four bilobate petals; dated “Circa AD 40-80“)
Conservation
1960s; mending with shellac, and joins covered with thin strips of plaster.
Conservation
2024 (June 18): mending discus to base using Acryloid B-72 in 40% acetone solution and fiberglass patching (A. Chandri).
Description
Circular format. Narrow, rounded shoulder. Circular, slightly concave discus, surrounded by single groove, with sunken central filling hole and shallow relief of rosette with 14 petals. This format typically has a rounded volute nozzle.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fabric: buff; smooth break; somewhat soft; slightly coarse, with uncommon to common, small, well sorted, rounded to subrounded, white, black, gray and red, and opaque (quartzitic?) inclusions. Consistently fired. Slip: dark brown to black; thin? semimatte? surface only in faint, small patches. Surface smoothed. Wide indentations and ridges on interior from pressing into mold.
Preservation comment
Eleven joining sherds preserves ca. 55% of middle to back base and adjacent walls up to edge of shoulder. Extensive, moderate abrasion and frequent pitting; worn breaks; scattered patches of encrustation.
