2025 (May): P. Bes studied and made fabric microphotograph.
Description
Solid spike toe, slightly asymmetrical, tapers to widened panel at base above concave bottom. Lower wall flares to cylindrical body.
Fabric, firing, surface
SCA Fabric A: brown with a tinge of red but fired golden brown at outside surface (2 mm); medium fine, hard; smooth to granular break; rare to uncommon, tiny to small, white to offwhite (calcareous and quartzitic) and red to gray inclusions; faintly micaceous. Surface well smoothed. Eastern Aegean-western Asia Minor.
Preservation description
One sherd preserves entire toe and part of lower body. Very slight abrasion and chipping around edges; slight to moderate, extensive film of encrustation.
