Ceramic Reference Collection
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2017-196
- Type:
- LRA2 amphora
- Location:
- North Room to the SE of the Agora (context 631 - Destruction Deposit)
- Condition:
- Complete Profile
- Dimensions:
- H.: 0.674m ; Body D. (max.): 0.455m ; Base D.: 0.035m ; Rim D.: 0.11m ; Handle H.: 0.097m ; Handle Th.: 0.028m ; Body Th.: 0.008m
- Description:
- Complete profile, although rim does not join to the neck. Few missing pieces and pick blows. Amphora with solid conical toe, thickened at the end, globular body, conical neck, tall flaring rim with inward thickened rounded lip and vertical handles, oval i
- Decoration:
-
- Fabric:
- Light red (2.5YR 6/8) to reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) hard fabric with few small to medium subrounded to angular white, rare small subrounded black and rare small subrounded to subangular red inclusions. Few small spherical voids.
- Provenance:
- Peloponnese?
- Chronology:
- Late 4th c. or early 5th c. CE (date of deposit)
- Bibliography:
- Corinth XVIII.2, 117 no. 255a, fig. 29, pl. 15; Marty 1993, 128, fig. 11
- Notes:
- Perhaps slightly earlier than standard type of 5th to 6th c.
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2017-194
- Type:
- Agora F65/66 amphora
- Location:
- Passage North of the Kilns to the SE of the Agora (context, 1656, 1669, 1676)
- Condition:
- Complete Profile
- Dimensions:
- H.: 0.431m ; Base D. (max.): 0.03m ; Body D.: 0.143m ; Neck D. (max.): 0.04m ; Rim D.: 0.04m ; Handle H.: 0.069m ; Handle Th.: 0.011m
- Description:
- Complete amphora profile with many missing parts. Amhpora with hollow spike, with ring foot broken off the vessel, globular body, cylindrical neck, and slightly flaring, outward thickened rim with rounded lip. Vertical handle with two shallow grooves on e
- Decoration:
-
- Fabric:
- Reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) coarse fabric with few sub-rounded to sub-angular milky white inclusions, and abudant angular sparkling inclusions.
- Provenance:
-
- Chronology:
- 1st half of 2nd c. CE (date of deposit)
- Bibliography:
- Agora V ; Peacock and Williams 1991 ;
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=311 - Notes:
-
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2013-036
- Type:
- Dressel 1C amphora
- Location:
- South Stoa, Room 4 (SE Corner - context 42)
- Condition:
- Fragment
- Dimensions:
- Pr. H.: 0.155m ; Rim D.: 0.12m ; Rim. H.: 0.077m ; Max. Handle W.: 0.102m ; Body Th.: 0.0404m
- Description:
- Single fragment preserves the rim, part of one handle and the upper part of the neck. Amphora with tall, cylindrical neck, folded rim that extends 0.016m from neck, concave on outer surface, with rounded lip and large vertical, spined handle attached to u
- Decoration:
- Very pale brown (10YR 8/3) slip preserved on the exterior. Interior unslipped.
- Fabric:
- Light red (2.5YR 7/8) hard, compact fabric with rare large spherical rounded white and frequent medium spherical subrounded white inclusions
- Provenance:
- Italy
- Chronology:
- Late 2nd to second quarter of the 1st c. BCE
- Bibliography:
- Lamboglia 1955 ; Beltrán Lloris 1970 ; Will 1979 ; 1987a ; Peacock and Williams 1991 ;
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=324 - Notes:
- North West Italian Fabric
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2016-085
- Type:
- Punic type
- Location:
- Area defined from Walls 540, 541, 1038, 587 to the SE of the Agora (context 601)
- Condition:
- Fragment
- Dimensions:
- Pr. H.: 0.050 ; Pr. W.: 0.091m ; Rim Th.: 0.019m ; Body Th.: 0.010m
- Description:
- Single fragment preserves 10% of rim. Encrusted. Amphora with conical neck and flaring rim with rounded lip. Rim concave on exterior, undercut on bottom.
- Decoration:
- Slip: 10YR 8/4 very pale brown
- Fabric:
- Light red (2.5YR 6/6 - core) fabric with 25-33% well sorted fine to medium sand inclusions, abundant subangular to subrounded white inclusions, and frequent fine sparkling inclusions
- Provenance:
- North Africa
- Chronology:
- 2nd c. to 1st c. BCE
- Bibliography:
- Van der Werff 1978
- Notes:
- Van der Werff 2 or Van der Werff 3
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2016-143
- Type:
-
- Location:
- North Room to the SE of the Agora (context 617 - Destruction Deposit)
- Condition:
- Missing Parts
- Dimensions:
- Pr. H. (max.): 0.285m ; Base D.: 0.06m ; Body D. (max.): 0.159m ; Neck D.: 0.045m ; Neck Th.: 0.005m ; Handle H.: 0.092m ; Handle Th.: 0.016m
- Description:
- Single fragment preserves almost the whole vessel. Part of the neck and rim missing. Modern pick marks on handle and the upper edge. Amphora with raised base with concave underside and round bottom, ovoid body with carinated, smoothed shoulder, slightly c
- Decoration:
- Slip: 10YR 8/2 very pale brown
- Fabric:
- Pink 7.5YR 7/4 sandy fabric with small to medium rounded to subrounded red oxidized, rare small to large subangular to angular white and rare small subrounded to subangular black inclusions. Few small spherical voids.
- Provenance:
-
- Chronology:
- Late 4th to early 5th c. CE (date of deposit)
- Bibliography:
- Williams and Zervos 1990, 339 no. 6, pl. 61
- Notes:
- Fractional amphora
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2015-118
- Type:
- LRA1 amphora - Cypriot
- Location:
- Structure 580 to the North of the Industrial Area to the SE of the Agora (context 564)
- Condition:
- Fragment
- Dimensions:
- Pr. H.: 0.085m ; Rim D. (est.): 0.11m ; Rim Th.: 0.18-0.20m
- Description:
- Rim fragment heavily encrusted. Amphora with cylindrical neck and outward thickened rim with rounded lip ; flat slightly beveled in on top ; groove on exterior near the lip.
- Decoration:
-
- Fabric:
- Too encrusted for description. Pale yellow surface (2.5Y 8/3)
- Provenance:
-
- Chronology:
- Late Roman (5th - 6th c. CE)
- Bibliography:
- Riley 1979 ; Peacock and Williams 1991 ;
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=236 - Notes:
-
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2017-124
- Type:
- LR4 amphora
- Location:
- North Room to the SE of the Agora (context 631 - Destruction Deposit)
- Condition:
- Complete Profile
- Dimensions:
- H.: 0.467m ; Body D. (max.): 0.228m ; Rim D.: 0.095m ; Handle H.: 0.073m ; Handle Th.: 0.013m ; Body Th.: 0.009m
- Description:
- Almost complete amphora with some pieces missing. One pick blow on shoulder. Amphora with rounded bottom, globular body, slightly flaring rim with rounded lip and two ear shaped handles attached to upper body. Heavy wheel ridging on lowest part of body (H
- Decoration:
- Slip: 2.5Y 8/3 pale yellow
- Fabric:
- Yellowish red (5YR 6/8) coarse sandy fabric with common small to medium subrounded to angular milky white incls., frequent small to large subrounded to angular white opaque incls., and common small to medium subangular to angular gray incls.
- Provenance:
-
- Chronology:
- Late 4th c. CE
- Bibliography:
- Peacock and Williams 1991 ; Majchereck 1995 ;
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=16 - Notes:
-
Storage-transport: Amphora
- Index:
- C 2013-141
- Type:
- LR5 amphora
- Location:
- Space South of the Pressing Floor at the central section of the industrial area to the SE of the Agora (context 1034)
- Condition:
- Fragment
- Dimensions:
- Pr. H. (max.): 0.206m ; Pr. W. (max.): 0.159m ; Rim D.: 0.09m
- Description:
- Multiple joining and non-joining fragments. Approximately 20% of rim preserved. Amphora with globular body and vertical, collar rim with rounded lip. Small vertical handle, oval in section (ear shaped handle), attached to upper shoulder. Extra bits of cla
- Decoration:
- Fine combing on upper shoulder and wheel ridging on lower half of vessel
- Fabric:
- Reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fabric with 20% well sorted fine to medium sand inclusions, abundant subrounded white inclusions, few subrounded to rounded red inclusions, and frequent fine gold sparkling inclusions.
- Provenance:
- Syria-Palestine
- Chronology:
- Late 6th - Early 7th c. CE
- Bibliography:
- Riley 1979 ; Peacock and Williams 1991 ;
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=267 - Notes:
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