- KTH1740 (Small Late Roman Amphora 2 with dipinto) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 84, bag 1
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Amphora 2 Small
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Amphora 2 with Writing
- Description
- Rounded shoulder. Short, conical neck. Straight flaring rim with rounded lip. Loop handles, oval in section, attach at shoulder and upper neck. Trace of three lines of dipinto on neck in black ink preserved by encrustation.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Southern Argolid LRA2 fabric. Hard, slightly granular fabric fired to light red towards interior and variably gray and buff towards surface. Medium to small rounded and angular calcareous inclusions, many visible on interior surface; few larger light/calcareous chunks; varied smaller bits mostly light; very small glistening quartz and few golden micaceous flakes visible on interior surface. Pale slip on all extant exterior surfaces, with occasional calcareous chunks breaking through; slip thinner on interior and fired to red. Small section of combing preserved on lowest extant portion of body.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves 50% of rim, entire neck, most of shoulder, one entire handle, and upper attachment of other handle. Very slight, sparse abrasion and minor chipping; clean breaks; thick encrustation over much of exterior and very small portion of interior.
- Handle width
- 0.0225
- Neck Height
- 0.043
- Preserved height
- 0.101
- Rim diameter
- 0.0789
- Rim Height
- 0.023
- Wall thickness
- 0.0076
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 6/6, light red
- Drawing
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- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KTH1740 (Small Late Roman Amphora 2 with dipinto).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1740>
