- KTH1871 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Regional Large Bowl or Pitcher) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-74
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Comparanda
- cf. Hammond2015, p. 313, no. 239, fig. 24 (second half of 6th century)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Yellowish red fired to buff on exterior surface (2 mm); somewhat fine, hard, smooth to vaguely conchoidal break; uncommon, tiny to small, tabular and subangular lime particles, some exploding at surface, and rare, small, irregular red and yellow bits (grog? limestone?); common small flakes of golden mica?). Cf. standard LRA2 southern Argolid fabric. Interior and exterior surfaces smoothed.
- Preservation comment
- Two nonjoining sherds (1867/1871) preserve ca. 35% of base and small part of lower wall. Slight, sparse abrasion and chipping; mostly clean breaks; no significant encrustation.
- Estimated base diameter
- 0.155
- Preserved height
- 0.0432
- Wall thickness
- 0.0063
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH1871 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Regional Large Bowl or Pitcher).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1871>
