KP411 (Ottoman-Early Modern Slip-Painted-Ware Pitcher) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Ottoman Pottery

Typological identification comment

Late Slip-Painted ware. See Vroom2003, pp. 174-175, 215, 225, nos. W 30.2, W 30.5, figs. 6:35, 6:45 (Boiotia, 16th–18th century; example cited from Corinth)

Description

Convex body: jug or pitcher? Curvature suggests fragment from shoulder. Exterior has white slip painted broadly in two lines and a loop and yellow glaze.

Fabric, firing, surface

Fabric: 2.5YR 5/8, red. Slip: white. Glaze: yellow (PMS 1345). Hard, medium-coarse fabric with frequent, small, rounded, white (lime) inclusions and small, angular, gold sparkling inclusions; frequent, small, angular voids. Very thick, even, dull slip. Thick, even, semilustrous glaze shows crazing.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of upper(?) body. Slight, very sparse abrasion with scattered pitting and gouging; worn breaks; frequent specks of encrustation.

Published as

Gregory2022, p. 748, no. 290, fig. 18.6

Preserved height

0.047

Preserved width

0.038

Chronology comment

Ottoman-Early Modern (16th-18th century or later)

Belongs to Historical Period

Early Modern (Historical Period)

Belongs to Historical Period

Ottoman (Historical Period)

Material

Ceramic (Material)

Drawing

Photograph