- KTH0006 (Small Late Roman Amphora 2) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-03
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Amphora 2 Small
- Description
- Rounded shoulder. Short, truncoconical neck. Flaring, slightly bulging rim has pointed lip with angular outer face and concave inner face. Sharp turn on inside at base of rim. Short, angled loop handle, oval to elliptical in section, attaches at middle of neck to base of rim and at shoulder. Combing on upper body to shoulder at level of lower handle attachment.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Standard Argolid LRA2 fabric, though with somewhat more sandy inclusions than usual and fired slightly more brown.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves entire rim and neck, one handle and start of other, and some combing under complete handle on upper body. Clean breaks; dense, large patches of encrustation with small pebbles adhering.
- Handle width
- 0.0251
- Preserved height
- 0.106
- Preserved height
- 0.11e0
- Rim diameter
- 0.086e0
- Rim diameter
- 0.0864
- Rim Height
- 0.0214
- Wall thickness
- 0.0068
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH0006 (Small Late Roman Amphora 2).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth0006>
