Scale and thickness of wall indicates middle of development: late 3rd-early 4th cs.
Description
Large dish. Thin wall, straight flaring. Plain lip, tapered and rounded. Wide, flat floor; small ring foot.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fine, hard, pale brownish red fabric with no visible inclusions. Thick, even, semilustrous slip on all surfaces, smoothed though with some smoothing marks visible, darker and redder than fabric.
Preservation comment
Two non-joining sherds, one preserving 7% of rim and small part of upper body and one preserving 5% of foot and small part of lower body. Clean breaks with rare chips; sparse specks of encrustation especially on floor.
“ KTH0688 (African Red-Slip Hayes Form 50A).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth0688>