- KTH2516 (Agora M334 Amphora) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-94
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Cylindrical lower body with slightly flaring wall. Simple base, vertical outer face, concave bottom.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Pale orangish red fabric, slightly more yellow at interior surface (1.5 mm); hard, slightly coarse; granular to slightly hackly break; common, mostly small, somewhat well sorted, sandy inclusions, mostly subrounded to spherical: common lime or other calcarous chunks; uncommon to common, dark (red, gray?) and light (many quartzitic) bits; very rare, medium, subangular, lime chunks (limestone?) and one large rounded quartzite grain. Excess clay on floor from spiral tooling; exterior wall has broad spiral groove with rounded peaks ca. 0.007 m peak-to-peak. Southern Phoenician. Cf. KTH1351.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves entire base and lower wall. Slight, sparse abrasion and chipping; uneven, somewhat sharp breaks; sparse specks to patches of encrustation.
- Base Diameter
- 0.049
- Preserved height
- 0.036
- Wall thickness
- 0.005
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
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“KTH2516 (Agora M334 Amphora).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2516>
