KTH1119 (Small Agora M334 Amphora) [permalink] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Object
In or from KTH Container
http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-88
Logical part of
Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
Comparanda
Cf. Reynolds2005, p. 603, pl. 16, fig. 116 (AUB Museum)
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Pale brown with a tinge of red, consistently fired; hard, medium coarse; granular to hackly break; numerous, small, well sorted, sandy inclusions, mostly rounded to spherical: many dark red and brown, many quartizitic, fewer calcareous; very rare, medium, subangular, dark inclusions. Variety of Northern Galilean-Southern Phoenician, not unlike LRA5 sandy orange fabric. Cf. KTH2058.
Preservation comment
One sherd preserves 45% of rim, large part of neck, and one upper handle. Slight, sparse abrasion but extensive chipping around edges; slightly worn breaks; sparse patches of irregular encrustation.
Preserved height
0.0876
Estimated rim diameter
0.08
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Photograph