Chersonesos - Record View Page: CH05SR

Archival Resource Key: ark:/87610/t66h2r/sfi_cd/CH05SR_2912

Short Description Vessel
Description Various fragments of relatively squat vessel; base diameter ca. 12 cm, at hips ca. 20 cm; waist decorated with single concentric ring at shoulder level; body of vessel decorated with series of vertical ridges ca. 1 cm wide punctured by pairs of ca. 0,15/ 0,20 cm holes. Between each pair of the ridges is placed a single convex 1,5 cm dia protrusion encircled by ring of 0,15/0,20 cm holes; placing of holes and creation of ridges done without great care or concern for symmetry.

Context: CH05SR_535
- Fallen stones of big and small dimensions (10cm to 50cm max length). Most of the large stones are dressed quarry blocks. Stones are mixed with gray soil, several tiles, pottery, glass; the layer extended all over the room, abutting the outside wall and the stairs of W corner. Along one side of the room this layer seemed to contain a deposit of mud plaster that might have originally been applied to the surface of one of the walls