- KTH2671 (African Red-Slip Vessel) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Unclassified African Red Slip
- Typological identification comment
- Thickness and material qualities point to Middle-Late Roman (4th-5th cs.) rather than Late Roman-Early Byzantine (6th-7th cs).
- Description
- Vessel of uncertain form with somewhat thick floor or wall. Thin groove on one face. Slipped on interior and exterior.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Orangish red wirh tinge of brown. Hard, granular fabric with uncommon, small, subrounded lime chunks and rare, small, dark red or gray inclusions. Thick, semilustrrous slip, smoothed. Middle-Late Roman ARS fabric.
- Label or tag text
- KTH-2015-001 | Room 3
- Preservation comment
- One small body sherd. Slight, sparse abrasion with minor pitting and scratching; mostly clean breaks; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Maximum preserved dimension
- 0.0037
- Wall thickness
- 0.0011
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
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“KTH2671 (African Red-Slip Vessel).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2671>
