- KE 1911 (Middle Roman Thin-Walled Ware Cup with Dipinto) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- Κ̣Λ̣ΕΟⲤ
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 487
- Typological identification
- Roman-period Painted Thin Wall Cup
- Description
- Small cup/jug with rounded body and short everted neck, offset from body by light tooled ridge. Letters in lighter paint have mostly faded: Κ̣Λ̣ΕΟⲤ
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Slightly granular fabric fired to light red with frequent small white/lime inclusions. Surface essentially plain though fired lighter and somewhat more brown (2.5YR 6/8).
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 25% of rim and part of upper body to just below widest point. Very slight abrasion around edges and pitting across surfaces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, a no. LRB 11b, pp. 89-90, fig. 4 (B. Adamsheck: “Motto Jug“)
- Estimated diameter upper bound
- 0.085
- Preserved height
- 0.0442
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.062
- Wall thickness
- 0.002
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 10R 6/8
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 1911 (Middle Roman Thin-Walled Ware Cup 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/ke1911>
