- KTH0919 (Roman Eastern Cilician Amphora) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-62
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Unclassified Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- Eastern Cilician: not Pompeii 5 or LRA 1, but morphologically linked to Agora M54/G198 or Lorenzo 7 (but thinner wall and no ledged rim)? see e.g. Opaiţ et al. 2022, p. 105, fig. 75, no. 1098 (Dinogetia)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Light red fabric but very surface fired whitish yellow; somewhat soft; granular break; frequent, mostly dark, small to tiny, varied inclusions=“black sand“ with rare lime bits and red serpentinite. Eastern Cilician.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves 20% of rim and small part of upper neck with trace of upper handle attachment. Slight, sparse abrasion with rare flaking; worn breaks; tiny patches of encrustation.
- Preserved height
- 0.0677
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.13
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH0919 (Roman Eastern Cilician Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth0919>
