- KE 2008 (Early Roman Piriform Unguentarium) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Technique
- Spiral groove running up lower body. String-cut base. Even spiral turning marks inside neck.
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 507
- Typological identification
- Early Roman Terracotta Unguentarium
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Red with a tinge of brown. Somewhat hard, consistently fired; smooth break. Uncommon to common, tiny to small, well sorted, subrounded to subangular bits: mostly dark (red to brown, dark gray or black?), and some white (both tabular and rarely platy, some dissolving lime). Traces of slip on interior neck? Attic.
- Preservation description
- Intact but missing rim. Slight, sparse abrasion and slight to moderate erosion with flaking; worn breaks; wide patches of pale, cloudy encrustatoin(?) and brown discoloration. Weathering consistent with long marine submersion.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 120, no. RC 32b, pl. 33 (B. Adamsheck)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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