- KE 1891 (Knidian Gray-Ware Bowl) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 485
- Conservation
- 2019 (June): mechanical cleaning and refitting with shellac (UHU).
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Light red fabric with a tinge or brown, fired gray on interior surface (1-3mm); darker red slip with grayer area from variable firing around one handle. Medium fine, hard; smooth break. Uncommon, well sorted, tiny light and dark bits; no visible mica. Thin, even, slightly lustrous(?) slip over interior and rim down below carination to mid-lower body.
- Preservation comment
- 11 joining sherds preserve ca. 35% of rim and body with both handles. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and minor chipping around edges; worn breaks; thin, sparse, small patches of encrustation especially around handles.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 132, ad no. RC 62 (B. Adamsheck)
- Estimated body diameter
- 0.135
- Handle total height
- 0.0373
- Handle width
- 0.0414
- Preserved height
- 0.0554
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.12
- Wall thickness
- 0.0047
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 10R 6/6, light red
- Surface (slip) Munsell reading
- 10R 5/6, red
- Drawing
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“KE 1891 (Knidian Gray-Ware Bowl).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1891>
