KTH1662 (Byzantine Amphora or Jar) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
In or from KTH Container
http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-31
Logical part of
Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
Comparanda
cf. KTH1230, KTH1340, KTH1652+1673, KTH2220
Description
Truncoconical neck, relatively thin-walled. Wide, thin strap handle loops outward horizontally.
Fabric, firing, surface
Pale red, consistently fired; very hard, somewhat fine, with smooth to vaguely conchoidal break; uncommon, tiny to small, poorly sorted lime specks, rare, tiny to small, subangular, dark gray bits, one or two, subrounded, red chunks; upper handle and sides of handle have thin whitish wash. Surface shows wet smoothing.
Preservation comment
One sherd preserves upper handle and part of middle neck at attachment. Slight, sparse abrasion and scoring; mostly clean breaks; thin, faint cloud of incipient encrustation.
Handle width
0.0535
Estimated neck diameter
0.095
Preserved height
0.0423
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph