- KTH2235 (Early-Middle Roman Phocaean Cookpot) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-99
- Comment
- KTHPUBCAT
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Phocaean Cooking Ware
- Description
- Cooking pot. Short, concave neck marked below by bead and flaring widely outward; downturned rim with sharp upper and lower edges and flat outer face bearing two prominent grooves.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Slight granular red fabric with occasional small dark and light angular and subrounded inclusions, some glistening both (some micaceous and some quartzitic). Exterior surface gray, very distinct from fabric, and thinly washed, interior slight darker red in streaks. Phocaean.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves 20% of rim and neck. Slight, sparse abrasion and large breaks along edges; somewhat clean breaks; extensive patches of thin encrustation.
- Preserved height
- 0.0343
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.13
- Wall thickness
- 0.003
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 10R 5/8
- Surface (slip) Munsell reading
- 10R 5/1
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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“KTH2235 (Early-Middle Roman Phocaean Cookpot).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2235>
