Cooking pot. Heavy loop handle, circular to oval in section.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Core fired to light red, surface plain but fired to pale (2.5Y 8/3); coarse, hard fabric; frequent, medium, light (limestone?) and dark (mostly dark grey), sandy chunks (few quartzitic?), and other smaller varied bits; many inclusions visible on surface. NePcf.
Preservation comment
Intact. Slight, sparse abrasion and pitting; slightly worn; thin, sparse patches of encrustation.
“KTH1234 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine 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/kth1234>