KTH2324 (Late Roman Cilician Cooking Pot) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
In or from KTH Container
http://kenchreai.org/kaa/kth/kth-container-86
Logical part of
Threpsiades Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Late Roman-Early Byzantine Cooking Pot
Comparanda
cf. KTH2599
Description
Wide rounded shoulder. Heavy, drooping rim folded over and under.
Fabric, firing, surface
Brownish red but fired slightly more yellow toward surface; dense, hard fabric, with slightly hackly break; rare to uncommon, small, rounded and subrounded, translucent and pale particles (quartzitic) and rare, medium to large, angular stones and lime chunks (some exploding at surface); rare, small, rounded red bits.
Preservation comment
One sherd preserves 8% of rim and small part of upper wall. Slight, somewhat sparse abrasion; mostly clean breaks; small patches of encrustation.
Preserved height
0.0264
Estimated rim diameter
0.39
Has geographic origin
Cilicia
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Photograph