- KTH0832 (Agora M334 Amphora) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-08
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Simple, flat to slightly concave base; slight band around base to slightly flaring lower wall.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale orangish red fabric, fired slightly more pale orange at surface but splotchy; hard, slightly coarse; vagule smooth to granular break; common, small, somewhat well sorted, sandy inclusions, mostly subrounded to spherical: common lime or other calcarous chunks; uncommon to common, dark (red, gray?) and light (many quartzitic) bits. Southern Phoenician. Cf. KTH0814; sim. KTH2171 but less gritty.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves roughly one quarter of base and lower body. Slight erosion of fabric; slight, somewhat extensive abrasion on all surfaces and chipping along edges; slight, extensive film of encrustation.
- Base Diameter
- 0.055
- Preserved height
- 0.047
- Wall thickness
- 0.0062
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 6/8
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH0832 (Agora M334 Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth0832>
