KTH2019 (Late Roman Eastern Aegean Cooking Pot or Lid) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
In or from KTH Container
KTH Container 18
Logical part of
Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
Description
Wide mouth cooking pot with rounded, overhanging rim, grooved in underside and ridged on top outer edge. Or wide lid.
Fabric, firing, surface
Cooking ware. Outside surface: slightly brownish gray; interior out to surface (1-2mm): slightly reddish brown; core: pale gray. Hard, somewhat coarse; hackly break. Rare to uncommon, small, subangular-angular, poor sorted, dark gray to black bits (some quartzitic?); rare, medium, tabular to subrounded calcareous chunks; uncommon, small flakes of silvery mica Late Roman Aegean micaceous ware: eastern Aegean/southwestern Asia Minor.
Preservation comment
One sherd preserves 12% of rim. Slight, sparse abrasion and faint scratching; worn breaks; thin, extensive encrustation.
Preserved height
0.014
Estimated rim diameter
0.27
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Photograph
Photograph
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