KP368 (Late Roman Near Eastern Cooking Pot) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cooking Pot

Comparanda

Cf. CATHMA1991, pp. 39, 41-42, figs. 31, 32 (Cooking pot type 13/14, 6th century?), citing Touma1984, vol. 1, pp. 46-48, nos. 42-58, vol. 2, fig. 26.31 (Ras ibn Hani, Syria)

Comparanda

cf. CavalazziFabbri2010, p. 624, fig. 6.10 (Classe, Ravenna, context: late 5th-first half 6th century)

Contributor Notes

2005: JLR revised significantly MorisonRife2022.

Description

Convex upper body constricts to neck, marked by groove. Inward-thickened rim with tapered lip. Flat oval, grooved loop handle attaches to upper rim.

Fabric, firing, surface

2.5Y 3/1, very dark gray. Hard, gritty fabric with frequent mica and frequent, well-sorted, small, spherical and subrounded, white and brown sandy inclusions. Northern Levantine.

Preservation description

Two joining fragments preserve 25% of neck and rim and the upper handle attachment. Slight chipping.

Published as

MorisonRife2022, pp. 606, 718, 719, no. 229, fig. 17.57

Preserved height

0.037

Preserved width

0.085

Estimated rim diameter

0.132

Chronology comment

Late 5th-6th century

Has geographic origin

Syria

Material

Ceramic (Material)

Drawing

Photograph