Anemurium 563 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Anemurium 563

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Context Information

Site Name

Anemurium

Date

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Site Type

City

Country/Region

Turkey/Eastern Mediterranean

Period

Early Byzantine

Archaeological Context

AN78P20 III2B Area A, outside north door

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Vessel Details

Shape

Transport amphora

Shape Type

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Fabric Description

Soft, fairly fine-grained smooth yellowish buff clay containing small to medium-sized white lime particles, dark grits and much silver mica

Measurements (cms)

rim diameter 6.5 cm

Functional Category

Transport/Storage

Surface treatment

Rim diameter: 6.5 cm

Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Firing

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Vessel Images 1

Anemurium 563

Transport amphora

Anemurium

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Early Byzantine

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 0

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

Late Roman Amphora 1 (LRA 1)

4th - 8th centuries CE

Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Byzantine, Late Roman

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Caroline Williams. Anemurium. The Roman and Early Byzantine Pottery.. Subsidia Mediaevalia 16. Toronto: Pontifical Insitute of Mediaeval Studies, 1989 , Figure Fig. 57.563.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

"Curving shoulder is stepped on interior where it meets the neck: neck is relatively taller and narrower than is generally found on Type B: neck ends in a heavy somewhat square rim: ridge appears on n