- KTH1384 (Samos Cistern Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Samos Cistern Amphora
- Description
- Cylindrical neck flares slightly up to plain, outwardly thickened rim with rounded lip. Handle attached at lower rim descends in arc to shoulder; oval to rectangular in section with wide groove on outer face.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- SCA Fabric 1, so far as it can be observed through encrustatiojn: golden brown with a tinge of red; hard, medium fine; smooth to slightly granular break; frequent golden mica and other sparkles (silvery? quartzite?); infrequent white particles (calcareous), and varied tiny red and gray bits. Surface smoothed. Eastern Aegean-western Asia Minor.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves 28% of rim, upper neck, and upper attachment of one handle. Slight, sparse abrasion; worn breaks; thick coat of encrustation covers almost entire surface.
- Preserved height
- 0.049
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.12
- Wall thickness
- 0.011
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH1384 (Samos Cistern Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1384>
