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- In or from KTH Container
- http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-27
- Comment
- KTHPUBCAT
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Description
- Low boal with rounded interior. Flat bottom. Thick walls with broad down-turned to drooping rim, rounded upper face. Groove marking rim off from inner wall. Trace of smoothing of clay under rim to make transition to outer wall.
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Hard, medium fine to slightly gritty fabric consistently fired to pale yellowish red, with many inclusions: occasional medium golden micaceous flakes, occasional medium lime chunks, occasional dark stone chunks, very frequent angular varied small inclusions, mostly dark; frequent small voids. Thin wash slightly lighter than fabric visible over rim and exterior; floor and lower interior smoothed by abrasive use.
- Preservation comment
- Two large, joining sherds preserve full profile and 50% of rim. Slight, sparse abrasion; slight patches of encrustation.
- Preserved height
- 0.107
- Wall thickness
- 0.018
- Wall thickness
- 0.039
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KTH2752 (Early Roman Italian Mortarium).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/kth/kth2752>
