- KTH0744 (Early Samos Cistern Amphora) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-15
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Agora M 273 Amphora
- Typological identification
- Samos Cistern Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- Early in morphological development from Agora M273-related forms-SCA (“transitional“): neck and rim are earlier shapes, as is rounded handle (and cf. other Aegean Dr24-family), but handle‘s looping and grooving and asymmetrical attachment look later.
- Description
- Short cylindrical neck has outwardly thickened rounded rim. Compact vertical loop handles, rectangular in section with deep groove on outside, attach to upper neck and shoulder. Wide rounded shoulder.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- SCA Fabric 2, so far as is observable through the encrustation: reddish brown fabric fired slightly darker at surface; hard, slightly coarse; gritty surface and slightly granular break; tiny golden micaceous flakes at surface; uncommon, small, rounded, lime and quartz; other tiny light bits. Eastern Aegean/western Asia Minor.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves 7% of rim, one entire handle, and large part of one shoulder. Slight to moderate, somewhat extensive abrasion with flaking and rare scoring; worn breaks; extensive, rough patching of encrustation.
- Handle width
- 0.031
- Preserved height
- 0.133
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.11
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 5/6
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH0744 (Early Samos Cistern Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth0744>
