- KTH1323+699+720 (Samos Cistern Amphora) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- In or from KTH Container
- KTH Container 21, bag 1
- Technique
- Traces of wet-smoothing around neck to mouth. Patches of excess clay pressed flat around upper neck and rim; one irregular blob of clay inside filling indentation at lower attachment of handle.
- Logical part of
- Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Samos Cistern Amphora
- Conservation
- 2025 (May): G. Blasdel rejoined with UHU Hart.
- Contributor Notes
- 2025 (May): P. Bes studied and made fabric microphotograph.
- Description
- Cylindrical to conical neck, flaring to plain, short, outwardly thickened rim. Rounded shoulder. Vertical loop handles, oval in section with grooves on top, attach asymmetrically to upper neck/rim and shoulder. Wheel-ridging from shoulder downward. Thin coating of pitch painted inside and over lip in wide bands, but a few sprayed spots below.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- SCA Fabric C: Brownish red fabric, fired slightly darker at surface (<1mm) to grayish brown. Slightly coarse, hard; granular break and gritty surface texture; uncommon, tiny to small, moderately well sorted, mostly rounded to subrounded, white and off-white particles (calcareous and quartzitic); rare isolated medium angular lime chunks; rare tiny dark bits (dark red, gray?); abundant small golden (and a few silver?) micaceous flakes, many flattened on both surfaces. Eastern Aegean/western Asia Minor.
- Preservation description
- Three joining sherds (699+720+1323) preserve almost complete rim and most of neck, both handles, and part of shoulder to upper wall. Slight, very sparse abrasion with minor pitting and scoring; somewhat worn breaks; thin, faint film of encrustation in patches. Post-depositional burning in clouds perhaps overlapping with smeared pitch.
- Handle width
- 0.028
- Preserved height
- 0.113
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.125
- Wall thickness
- 0.008-0.009
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Fabric Munsell reading
- 2.5YR 5/8
- Drawing
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