Barbotine Cup Or Jug.

Lower body and most of wall and rim restored.

Ovoid body, upper two-thirds decorated with five rows of barbotine bosses. Body angles in to rim at top. Low rim, convex to outside.

Hard, fine, grayish brown fabric (10YR 5/2) with small white inclusions and some mica; thick, shiny black glaze outside and on inside of rim.

Small fragment of a piece with similar decoration: P 15690 (S 21:3, context of first half of 1st century after Christ).

Cf. Antioch IV, i, p. 42, fig. 23:7, 8; Paphos III, no. 11, pp. 61--62, pl. XXII (Hayes dates these beakers in the early Roman period and identifies them tentatively as Knidian).