Hollow-Footed Transport Amphora

Hollow-foot amphora. Round shoulders with carination at lower part, body tapering to v-shaped toe, which is flattened at its end, tubular hollow base with shallow horizontal grooves on the exterior surface, long thick conical neck with multiple ridges, that tapers to the sharp and very narrow turned-over rim with rounded edge and pronounced ridge at its base, thick double-ridged handles, each subrectangular in section, arch high and sharply above the rim and down to the top of the shoulder, wide grooved attachments on the neck.

Red/orange clay, coarse, with shiny grits, which might be micaceous, and a grey core.

Multiple shallow horizontal ribbing on the neck and foot/toe, done on the wheel. No slip.

Wheelmade, in 2 pieces. Ribbing (see above). Clay ridged and compressed below the ridge at the base of the turned-over rim. Hollow-foot is an added tube of clay placed over and extending below the slightly pointed toe of the amphora (junction visible). Purpose and function? Handle ridges formed by the potter drawing his finger down in the wet clay. Dents and bumps, sloppy finish.