- KTH1694 (Middle/Late Roman Phocaean Cooking-Ware Jug) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-76
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Phocaean Cooking Ware
- Description
- Conical neck tapers gently up to rim. Thickened, everted rim with rounded profile and flat, sloping interior face.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric: 2.5YR 6/8 (light red). Thin surface, consistently fired to purplish gray (2.5YR 3/4. “dark reddish brown“). Very slightly granular fabric with frequent tiny golden micaceous flakes, inclusions infrequent otherwise: small reddish dark subangular chunks, and rare lime. Brushstrokes from wet-smoothing.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves 51% of rim and part of upper neck. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and spots of gouging especially on rim; moderately worn breaks; slight but frequent specks to patches of encrustation.
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.066
- Rim Height
- 0.11
- Wall thickness
- 0.006
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH1694 (Middle/Late Roman Phocaean Cooking-Ware Jug).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1694>
