- KTH1444 (Late Roman Regional Pitcher) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 89, bag 1
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Spouted jug. Tall vertical spout, tapering to small mouth. Faint turning marks on exterior.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Reddish brown fired more pale at surfaces (1-2 mm); somewhat fine, hard, smooth to slightly granular break and slightly pimply surface; uncommon, well sorted, small, tabular, subangular, and subrounded inclusions, mostly white (calcareous) and fewer gray and reddish brown; rare, medium, irregular lime chunks; faintly golden micaceous; few visible at surface and rarely spalling. Refined LRA2 southern Argolid fabric.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves ca. 15% of rim and middle to upper neck. Slight, moderate abrasion and chipping around edges; worn breaks; little or no encrustation.
- Estimated diameter upper bound
- 0.045
- Preserved height
- 0.0476
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.04
- Wall thickness
- 0.0034
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH1444 (Late Roman Regional Pitcher).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1444>
