- KE 2300 (Phocaean Everted-Rim Cooking Pot) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 746
- Typological identification
- Phocaean Cooking Ware
- Cited by
- SlaneWright1980b, p. 549 (rev. KenchreaiIV: “not all of the vessels of RC 96 and RC 98 are Corinthian“)
- Description
- Deep cooking pot with everted rim, small handle under rim, and mostly straight upper wall. Rim is well formed with near flat upper face, slightly thicker at outer edge; squared outer edge is sharply distinct from upper face while rounding to lower face, with smooth curve to upper wall. Low wheel ridging is more prominent on interior face. Small strap handle with cut edges is attached to lower face of rim; prominent thumb-impression at low attachment.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Hard, slightly granular fabric fired to reddish-brown core with darker edges. Frequent small to tiny light inclusions; these are mostly calcereous with rare angular quartz. Thin gray slip on exterior, fired to more reddish and thinner on interior. Many inclusions visible on interior, including ‘exploded‘ calcereous very small chunks.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves just ca. 28% of rim, one handle, and profile of wall to below handle. Slight, sparse abrasion with rare pitting, so that slip is largely preserved (one large patch flaked away to show fabric underneath); worn breaks; large patch of thin encrustation, rust colored.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, p. 144, no. RC 98, fig. 13 (B. Adamsheck)
- Handle width
- 0.020
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.21
- Wall thickness
- 0.0035
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 5/4
- Drawing
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“KE 2300 (Phocaean Everted-Rim Cooking Pot).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke2300>
