- KE 2411 (Late Hellenistic Attic Jug or Small Jar?) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Comment
- Previously uninventoried object found in storage and inventoried with new number in 2019.
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 802
- Conservation
- 1960s: traces of acrylic resin from mending along break.
- Description
- Jug or small jar? Ring base slopes upward to slightly concave bottom. Cylindrical body tapers upward. Late Hellenistic?
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- 2.5YR 6/8 (light red) fabric; 2.5YR 3/1 (dark reddish gray) slip. Attic? Fine fabric with no visible inclusions; rare subrounded to subangular, medium voids. Thin slip preserved on in traces on all surfaces.
- Preservation comment
- One large fragment preserves one third of base and lower wall; six large joining sherds preserve roughly 30% of middle wall; numerous small flakes. Severe erosion everywhere. From marine context: reddish brown fabric disintegrating, all edges blunted.
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.065
- Preserved height
- 0.045
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KE 2411 (Late Hellenistic Attic Jug or Small Jar?).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke2411>
