- KTH2383+1536 (Late Roman Imported Cooking Pot) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 98
- Comment
- KTHPUBCAT
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Cooking Ware
- Comparanda
- Cf. KTH2137+2138, KTH2382.
- Description
- Wide body (ovoid?) tapering up to rim. Wide body (ovoid?) tapers toward rim. Short, thick, everted rim turns outward and upward diagonally upward. Slightly rounded lip has shallow groove; interior face is mostly straight, delimited below by sharp turn outward and downward that served as lid-seating.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Coarse fabric is brown with frequent small light angular inclusions, rare medium light angular and subangular inclusions; granular break. All surfaces are grey with light brush marks.
- Preservation comment
- Two joining sherds, one large (2383) and one small (1536), preserve ca. 22% of rim and small part of upper body. Slight, extensive abrasion and slight chipping around edges; slightly worn breaks; thin, moderate patches of encrustation.
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.16
- Wall thickness
- 0.006
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH2383+1536 (Late Roman Imported Cooking Pot).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2383>
