- KTH2111 (Roman Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 7
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Unclassified Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- JLR 2022: prob. Dressel 5
- Typological identification comment
- JLR/PB 2024: SCA shape-family but variant fabric
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Buff to pale reddish brown, consistently fired; hard, medium fine; slightly granular break; rare, poorly sorted, tiny light (calcareous) and rarely dark bits; silvery micaceous sparkles. Very well smoothed surface.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves upper toe and roughly 25% of lower body. Slight, extensive abrasion and minor gouging and chipping; worn breaks; extensive, irregular, thin specks to patches of encrustation.
- Preserved height
- 0.121
- Preserved width
- 0.173
- Base Width
- 0.027
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KTH2111 (Roman Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2111>
