KE 591 (Early Byzantine “Slavic-Ware“ Cooking Pot) [permalink] [next]
Type
Inventoried Object
Technique
Handmade? Slow wheel?
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
P 152
Typological identification
Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cooking Pot
Cited by
SlaneWright1980b, p. 549 (rev. KenchreaiIV: “not all of the vessels of RC 96 and RC 98 are Corinthian“)
Description
Cooking pot with rounded body and short everted rim. Thick walls are lumpy on both interior and exterior, more so on interior. Single band of incised waves with sharp peaks, slightly leaning to left. Narrow pre-firing incisions overlie this wave; it is unclear to what extent those are intentional, because they do not relate to the wavy line.
Fabric, firing, surface
Coarse fabric with many large angular light chunks (some limestone) and tiny bits. Surface ranges in patches from light red where thin wash is extant to brownish red where slip is thinner. Patches of scorching, perhaps from use. Interior seems to be thinly washed and fired to reddish brown.
Preservation description
One sherd preserves <10% of rim and contiguous wall to below widest point of vessel. Slight, sparse abrasion and chipping around edges; mostly clean breaks; scattered wide patches of encrustation.
Published as
KenchreaiIV, p. 144, no. RC 98, fig. 13 (B. Adamsheck: “4th century or later“)
Preserved height
0.0884
Estimated rim diameter
0.12
Wall thickness
0.0064
Belongs to Historical Period
Early Byzantine (Historical Period)
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Fabric Munsell reading
2.5YR 4/1 (dark reddish gray)
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph
Photograph