- KTH1539 (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. Light spiral turning.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- SCA Fabric 1: grayish brown fired to golden brown at surface (2mm); fine-medium fine, hard; smooth to slightly granular break; rare to uncommon, tiny to small, white to offwhite (calcareous and quartzitic) and red to gray 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
- 0.039
- Minimum diameter
- 0.023
- Preserved height
- 0.058
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH1539 (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/kth1539>
