- KE 2025 (North Italian Sigillata Cup) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Writing transcription
- K
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 520
- Typological identification
- Unclassified Italian Sigillata
- Cited by
- KenchreaiI, p. 136, pl. LVI:B (R. Scranton)
- Comparanda
- For another cup in this same ware, see Slane1986, pp. 285, 308, no. 47, fig. 8 (Early Roman Cellar Building, southwest Forum, Neronian deposit but residual artifact?).
- Conservation
- 1960s: sherds mended with shellac and infilling with fine white plaster.
- Description
- Hemispherical cup with low ring foot. Description of decoration as in KenchreaiIV: ”The lower zone is divided into four parts by triangular sections composed of a shield and two loops enclosing a seven dot rosette. Triangular sections composed of these motives are an important part of the decoration of Sarius ware. The four parts consist of two lilies on winding stems on either side of an Acanthus leaf. The upper zone bears an unwinding floral scroll and circles.” On underside of base: K in relief.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Very fine fabric with occasional small rounded calcareous inclusions (discolored by marine exposure). Slip darker red.
- Preservation comment
- Ten sherds, nine joining, preserve ca. 55% of vessel, including entire base and profile to above widest diameter of vessel. Moderate, somewhat extensive erosion and abrasion, so that fabric is lightened and softened; slip flaking away in many places; worn breaks; rare specks of encrustation. Weathering consistent with long marine submersion.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, no. ER 11, pp. 51-52, pls. 13-14 (B. Adamsheck)
- Base Diameter
- 0.047
- Preserved height
- 0.052
- Wall thickness
- 0.002
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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“KE 2025 (North Italian Sigillata Cup).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke2025>
