- KTH0187/2133 (African Red-Slip Hayes Form 90B) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification comment
- Bonifay2004 Sigillée type 47 variante B1 (second half 6th-beginning 7th c.)
- Description
- Large plate. Knobby rim that is somewhat flattened above and below, with wider underside. Extant wall thickens towards interior with slight ledge or “chamfer” well outside line of foot, ca. 4 cm from rim. Slightly splayed foot with flat resting surface, thickens upward toward wall; two fine grooves on exterior. Broad floor and straight flaring wall.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Granular fabric with only rare, small, angular and rounded, lime inclusions. Thick, even slip darker than fabric on interior, smoothed; thin to reserved on exterior.
- Preservation comment
- Three sherds (0187a+b/c) preserve 30% of rim and body, and one nonjoining sherd (2133) preserves 25% of base. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and sparse pitting and scratching; clean breaks; thin to moderate, extensive film of encrustation on rim sherds and severe, extensive encrustationn on base sherd.
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.22
- Height
- 0.064
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.4
- Wall thickness
- 0.0090-0.0132
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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