- KTH1650 (Africana 2B-D Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-31
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification comment
- Africana 2B/2C/2D (3rd century)
- Description
- Loop handle, oval in section with wide grooves.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale brick red; slighty coarse and gritty, hard, with granular break; frequent, well sorted quartzitic sand (pale and gray, opaque, rounded to subrounded particles); cream coating (1-2 mm) from saline wash. Linear smoothing marks on exterior. Tunisian.
- Preservation comment
- One intact handle. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion; somewhat worn breaks; thin patches of encrustation.
- Handle width
- 0.0427
- Preserved height
- 0.0954
- Preserved width
- 0.0713
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KTH1650 (Africana 2B-D Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1650>
