- KTH1523 (Samos Cistern Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 64
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Samos Cistern Amphora
- Description
- Solid spike toe tapers to flattened bottom, marked off by widened panel at base. Spirally turned.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- SCA Fabric 1, so far as can be observed through the encrustation: golden brown fabric; medium fine, hard; smooth break; varied small inclusions; faintly micaceous. Eastern Aegean-western Asia Minor.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves entire toe up to attached with body. Slight, extensive abrasion and sparse chips; worn breaks; thin film of encrustation covers all surfaces.
- Maximum diameter
- 0.047
- Minimum diameter
- 0.024
- Preserved height
- 0.076
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH1523 (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/kth1523>
