KTH1468 (Early Byzantine Eastern Aegean Cooking Pot) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
In or from KTH Container
http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-75
Logical part of
Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cooking Pot
Description
Slightly rounded upper wall tapers up to rim. Steeply everted, thick rim has squared outer face and two small grooves near edges of upper face.
Fabric, firing, surface
Core and interior surface: 7.5YR 5/2 (brown); exterior surface: GLEY 1 4/N (dark gray). Soft fabric with granular break has uncommon, small to medium, light (quartzitic?), subangular inclusions rarely embedded in surface; slightly micaceous.
Preservation comment
One sherd preserves ca. 12% of rim and small part of upper body. Slight, sparse abrasion and scoring; mostly clean edges; scattered specks of encrustation.
Preserved height
0.031
Estimated rim diameter
0.16
Wall thickness
0.006-0.007
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
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