- KTH0981 (Late Roman Imported Cooking Pot) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 70
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cooking Pot
- Description
- Globular body; faint ridging. Small rim thickened outward into squarish projection, slightly undercut, has convex outside face and sharp groove on upper interior lip.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Core and interior surface: reddish brown; exterior surface: grayish brown. Granular fabric with hackly break has well sorted, frequent, small to medium, subangular and angular, light (clear and white) inclusions, some embedded in surface, rare; small, tabular, black bits; and one large, angular, gray stone visible. Cf. KTH1116+1520, KTH1665.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves 25% of rim and large part of body. Slight, sparse abrasion; mostly clean breaks; thin, extensive network of strands of encrustration.
- Preserved height
- 0.051
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.17
- Wall thickness
- 0.0045
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
-
- Photograph
-
