- KTH2166+2237 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Regional Bowl) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 103
- Comment
- KTHPUBCAT
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Bowl. Globular body tapering upward. Short, slightly everted, with lentoid profile, distinctly tooled below. Light wheel-ridging on exterior.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Reddish yellow interior and outer face of rim; washed exterior surface buff with clouds of brownish red; slightly granular break; infrequent, poorly sorted, small, subangular and subrounded white (calcareous) chunks, some embedded in surface; rare, large, subrounded gray chunks and light red pellets, visible at surface; other varied tiny bits, many light; one large void on inner face of rim. South Argolid fabric. Exterior surface thinly washed; light brushstrokes on all surfaces.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds (2166+2237) preserve 40% of rim and body almost to bottom. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion and minor shipping; mostly clean breaks; very rare specks of encrustation.
- Preserved height
- 0.063
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.105
- Wall thickness
- 0.006
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 6/8
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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