- KTH1917 (Late Roman Amphora 2) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-23
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification comment
- Spike toes like this appear on Late Roman LRA2 (~5th c. CE) and not on the developed Late Roman-Early Byzantine form of the southern Argolid or elsewhere in Aegean (late 6th-early 7th cs.)
- Description
- Short, irregular spike toe with rounded cap on bottom, prominently offset and near to a half circle in profile.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Orangish red fired more pale at very surface; slightly soft, sandy texture; smooth to vaguely conchoidal break; numerous lime specks; rare angular glassy black bits; common silvery mica. Probably eastern Aegean-western Asia Minor.
- Preservation comment
- Toe intact to lowermost wall. Slight, somewhat sparse abrasion and chipping around edges; worn breaks; wide patches of encrustation.
- Diameter
- 0.027
- Preserved height
- 0.052
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH1917 (Late Roman Amphora 2).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth1917>
