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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 483 b
- Typological identification
- Unclassified Eastern Sigillata A
- Typological identification comment
- Possible Pontic-Moesian sigillata? cf. Ivanov2022 Bowls Type XVI (p. 37, fig. 11)
- Typological identification comment
- The form is not in Hayes1985.
- Comparanda
- cf. SamosXX, p. 318, no. 1855, pl. 84 (U. Jantzen; Eupalinian Aqueduct)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraXXXII, pp. 30, 140, nos. 180, 184, fig. 7 (J. W. Hayes; “various late shapes“ dated mid-2nd c.-ca. AD 200?)
- Description
- Bowl with rounded and incurving wall, short everted rim, and low ring foot. Straight walls turn in above widest point. Triangular rim with rounded out face, concave upper. Short base sharply marked off from wall on exterior; hollow with short triangular button. Turning bands visible on interior and exterior.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Very fine, slightly pink fabric. Dark red slip, semimatte, thick; drip marks on exterior.
- Preservation comment
- Four joining sherds preserve ca. 75% of vessel with full profile. Slight-moderate, frequent abrasion with rare pitting; worn slip cracking on top of rim; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, no. LRB 22, p. 94, pl. 22 (B. Adamsheck)
- Base Diameter
- 0.045
- Body diameter
- 0.1075
- Height
- 0.0542
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.11
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 1889 (Eastern Sigillata A Bowl).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1889>
