KP397 (Late Roman Regional 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

Precursor to SlaneSanders2005, pp. 267, 272, no. 3-30, fig. 8 (end 6th century) and related forms.

Description

Globular(?) body. Everted, half round, slightly undercut rim; sharp turn inside.

Fabric, firing, surface

Fabric (interior): 5 YR 5/6, yellowish red; (exterior): 5 YR 5/1, gray. Hard, medium coarse fabric with few mica and abundant, poorly sorted, tabular, rounded, subangular, white (calcareous) inclusions; granular break with planar fracturing. Regional.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of upper body and <25% of rim. Slight chipping; interior coated evenly with plaster or encrustation.

Published as

MorisonRife2022, pp. 607, 721, 722, no. 234, fig. 17.58

Preserved height

0.048

Preserved length

0.061

Preserved width

0.049

Estimated rim diameter

0.105

Chronology comment

Late 5th-early 6th century

Explanation of deposition

Represents Late Roman cleaning of Building B3 and dumping of debris into well.

Material

Ceramic (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRB0805-023

Location in unit

Middle (sixth) level of fill with mixed debris in well, west room B3-I.

Drawing

Photograph