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)
