- KE 2135 (Late Roman Amphora 2) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Comment
- Museum Display
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 578
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Amphora 2
- Conservation
- 1960s: refitting with shellac and infilling with plaster painted tan.
- Description
- Large amphora. Globular to ovoid body with discernible shoulder. Short conical neck. Heavy, tall, straight flaring to slightly cupped rim with slightly rounded outer profile; rim is sharply delineated from beck. Angled loop handles, oval in section, attach high on neck and at middle shoulder. Short, irregular spike toe, stubby and somewhat triangular, ends at thickened and rounded knob. Light ridging (not combing) on shoulder, just overlapping with lowest level of handles and ending just before widest point of body; additional band of very light ridging towards base.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- So far as can be observed: Buff fabric with pinkish hue, fired slightly lighter at surface (1-2mm). Hard, somewhat fine, with smooth to slightly granular break. Frequent, medium, calcareous particles; less common large calcareous chunks; frequent, very small to tiny, light (many calcareous) bits, fewer reddish to dark bits; very rare glistening golden micaceous bits bits. Cf. southern Argolid LRA2 fabric. Upper portion of body has thin, matte, pale slip, which becomes patchy at and below widest point.
- Preservation comment
- 30 joining sherds represent most of vessel with complete profile. Neck, rim, and both handles are preserved as a single sherd. Entire base preseved as part of one large sherd. Where extant the original surface is usually well preserved, though there are many large calcareous chunks breaking through exterior and interior surface with surrounding craters.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, pp. 114-115, no. RC 14, pl. 26 (B. Adamsheck)
- Base Diameter
- 0.0275
- Handle width
- 0.04
- Neck Height
- 0.061
- Rim diameter
- 0.137
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
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