- KTH2269 (Early-Middle Roman Corinthian Slipped Pitcher) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-86
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Pitcher. Upper body is cylindrical, with two deep, sharp grooves. Short, everted to almost horizontal rim; rounded outer face; groove just inside lip on upper inside face. Slip over rim and outside wall but only partly inside.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Reddish orange fabric, fine, hard, smooth break; very rare, poorly sorted, tiny to small, angular, pale gray to clear (quartzite?) inclusions, none calcareous; uncommon tiny red bits; faintly micaceous. Thick, even, semilustrous slip, slightly more red than fabric on exterior and interior; extant exterior has thicker, more smoothed slip, fired deeper red. Corinthian; cf. KL025.
- Preservation comment
- One sherd preserves 14% of rim and small part of upper body. Surface in good condition; moderately worn breaks; scattered specks to small patches of encrustation on all surfaces.
- Preserved height
- 0.023
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.095
- Wall thickness
- 0.005
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH2269 (Early-Middle Roman Corinthian Slipped Pitcher).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <https://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2269>
