- KTH2058 (Agora M334(?) Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 26
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification comment
- JLR 6-2024: check, form resembles Beirut 8.1B (mid-6CE; cf. Reynolds2005, p. 598, pl. 11, fig. 80)
- Description
- Low flaring shoulder. Tall, cylindrical neck, very slightly concave, with thin wall. Rim is outwardly thickened band; plain, rounded lip. Faint turning bands on interior and exterior.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Fabric core: 7.5YR 5/2 (grayish brown). Fabric surface, consistently fired: 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow). Somewhat coarse, medium hard fabric; granular break with bumpy surface texture; numerous, well sorted, sandy inclusions of various shapes: small, subrounded, dark red or brown, black, gray inclusions (including quartzitic and stone); occasional elongated pale orange particles; rare, small, subrounded, lime bits, a few larger and more angular (limestone?); rare small voids. Northern Galilean-southern Phoenician fabric, somewhat more pale and grittier than LRA5 sandy orange. Cf. KTH1119.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds preserve 8% of rim and full profile of shoulder to lip. Slight, extensive abrasion and pitting and slight chipping around edges; worn breaks.
- Preserved height
- 0.083
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.075
- Wall thickness
- 0.005
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH2058 (Agora M334(?) Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2058>
