Pottery Summary

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Statistics

by Fabric                                                              #of sherds             %of total

Orange ware (O)                                                    124                          7.7%

Bucchero (B)                                                           67                          4.1

Buccheroid (Bd)                                                     49                           3.0

Impasto (I)                                                           1279                          79.0

Coarse ware (C)                                                      92                            5.7

other*                                                                        8                             0.5

TOTAL:                                                              1619                         100.0%

by Locus      O (%)       B(%)       Bd(%)       I(%)           C(%)      other    |  TOTAL

1          5(25%)     1(5%)       0               13(65%)    1(5%)        0          |      20

2         20(14%)    3(2%)       0              121(83%)   1(1%)        1          |     146

3          5(16%)     2(6%)       0                25(78%)     0              0           |       32

4          26(8%)     6(2%)      10(3%)      286(86%)   2(1%)      3           |     333

5           3(4%)      3(4%)       2(3%)         62(87%)    1(1%)     0           |       71

6          65(7%)    50(5%)     35(4%)      759(76%)   86(9%)    4           |     999

balk cleaning   0          2(11%)      2(11%)        13(72%)    1(6%)    0           |       18

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*  "Other" includes 4 medieval painted sherds, 1 painted Ionic sherd, 2 cream ware sherds - 1 handle and 1 incised oinochoe fragment, and a dolium fragment.

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by Diagnostic Sherds

Locus 1        O         B         Bd        I         C         other

BODY           5           0          0        13        0             0

RIM               0           1         0          0         1             0

HANDLE      0           0         0           0        0             0

BASE            0           0          0          0        0             0

OTHER        0           0          0          0        0             0

TOTAL         5           1          0         13       1             0

Locus 2        O         B         Bd        I         C         other

BODY           15        3          0        111        0             1:  Ionic

RIM               3          0         0            6         1             0

HANDLE      1           0         0           3        0             0

BASE            1           0          0          1        0             0

OTHER        0           0          0          0        0              0

TOTAL      20           3         0         121       1             1

Locus 3        O         B         Bd        I         C         other

BODY           5           2          0        23        0             0

RIM               0           0         0          2         0             0

HANDLE      0           0         0           0        0             0

BASE            0           0          0          0        0             0

OTHER        0           0          0          0         0             0

TOTAL         5           2          0         25      0             0

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Locus 4        O         B         Bd        I         C         other

BODY          22          6          6       268        0             3:  2 medieval, 1 dolium

RIM               3           0         4         10        2             0

HANDLE      1           0         0           4         1            0

BASE            0           0          0           1        0             0

OTHER        0           0          0          3*       0             0 *  2 spouts, 1 ridged impasto

TOTAL       26           6        10        286       2             3

Locus 5       O         B         Bd        I         C         other

BODY           2           2          2        58        0             0

RIM               1           0         0          4         1             0

HANDLE      0           0         0           0        0             0

BASE            0           1          0          0        0             0

OTHER        0            0          0          0        0             0

TOTAL        3            3          2         62       1             0

Locus 6        O         B         Bd        I         C         other

BODY          53         31       28       692       67          3:  2 medieval, 2 creamware

RIM              11         15         6         45        3           0

HANDLE      0           1          0          7         8           1:  cream ware

BASE           1            3          1         12        7           0

OTHER        0           0          0           3*       1**      0 *1 tondo, 2 ridged;

TOTAL       65         50        35       759        86         0   **sherd with handle & rim

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Diagnostic Sherds

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Locus 6 (cont.)

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Locus 6 (cont.)

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The pottery of T28 N from the 2003 season was plentiful, but it was also very mixed.  The finer, presumably Orientalizing Period bucchero pottery, for example, was found in the same contexts as the Archaic period bucchero.  Most of the sherds collected show a high degree of wear, probably due to water.  This made many sherds difficult to recognize as diagnostic or undiagnostic and also as to their fabric.  The strata were not arranged chronologically according to their pottery, and there were medieval sherds in the two lowest strata.  These factors strongly support the theory, put forth in JAD II, p. 103 , that the area of T28 is an erosional deposit.