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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-12
- Comment
- KTHPUBCAT
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Cooking Ware
- Description
- Short rim flares outward with rounded outer lip and flattened upper face. Widely flaring upper body. Strap handle arcing above rim attaches to rim.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Core: pale grey; surfaces (2-4 mm): pale red. Medium coarse, hard, with hackly break and rough texture; frequent tiny bits with occasional small to medium light angular inclusions; rare small angular dark inclusions; occasionally these are present in surface. Interior surface is dark red and all other surfaces are pale brown; several voids. NePcf.
- Preservation comment
- Two nonjoining sherds, one large (904) and one small (704), together preserve ca. 12% of rim, upper part of one handle, and small part of upper body. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion, chipping, and rare pitting; slightly worn breaks; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Handle width
- 0.0283
- Preserved height
- 0.024
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.15
- Wall thickness
- 0.056
- Has geographic origin
- Northeast Peloponnese
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH0904/704 (Late Roman Regional Cooking Pot).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth0904>
