- KE 1912 (Middle Roman Thin-Walled-Ware Cup with Dipinto) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- ]Ϲ̣Ε[
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 488
- Typological identification
- Roman-period Painted Thin Wall Cup
- Description
- Small one-handled cup with short slightly flaring rim; rim has tooled offset at lower edge. Two letters partially preserved in light paint: ]Ϲ̣Ε[ . The first letter is extant only as the right end of an upper near horizontal stroke.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Very slightly granular fabric fired to ”light red” with very tiny light bits and occasional small darker inclusions, rare quartz flattened and visible on surface. Surface fired gray.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 50% of rim and part of upper body to above widest point. Slight, extensive abrasion.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, no. LRB 11c, pp. 89-90, fig. 4 (B. Adamsheck: “Motto Jug“)
- Estimated diameter upper bound
- 0.07
- Preserved height
- 0.041
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.06
- Wall thickness
- 0.0019
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 10R 6/8
- Drawing
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- File
- Photograph
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“KE 1912 (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/ke1912>
