- KTH1402 (Early Byzantine Regional Jug with Thumb-Rest) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-87
- Comment
- KTHPUBCAT
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Short cylindrical neck, concave, with folded rim and sharp lip. Widely arcing loop handle, square in section with sharply defined grooves, attaches below rim; strip added from upper handle over rim as thumbrest (W. 0.0143 m).
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale reddish brown fired to grayish brown at very surface; slightly coarse, hard, with granular break; uncommon, small, subrounded and subangular, mostly light (white) and fewer dark inclusions (red or brown, gray); faintly micaceous? Regional? Surface of handle is smoothed.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 12% of rim and upper neck with upper part of handle with thumbrest. Slight, sparse abrasion and scraping; worn breaks; thin, extensive thin of encrustation.
- Handle width
- 0.0251
- Handle width
- 0.029
- Preserved height
- 0.0453
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.065
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH1402 (Early Byzantine Regional Jug with Thumb-Rest).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1402>
