- KTH1351 (Agora M334 Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-57
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Plain base, slightly concave. Slight, irregular button on underwide. Straight, steeply flaring lower wall.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale orangish red fabric, slightly more yellow at interior surface (1.5 mm); hard, slightly coarse; granular to slightly hackly 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. Excess clay on interior of base; light tool marks underneath base. Southern Phoenician. Cf. KTH0814, KTH0832; sim. KTH2171 but less gritty.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves 35% of base and small part of lower wall. Slight, extensive abrasion and chipping around edges; somewhat worn breaks; faint patches of incipient encrustation.
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.05
- Estimated height
- 0.0259
- Wall thickness
- 0.0056
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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“KTH1351 (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/kth1351>
