Plate.

Fragment of rim.

Large plate with rolled rim. Beginning of lug or handle at left edge of fragment. Hard, light gray fabric (5Y 7/1) containing abundant fine sand and a few larger black and red inclusions; hard, shiny, dark blue glaze, ca. 0.1 cm. thick, with grainy appearance. Under a hand lens it appears as a dark blue background with fine, angular, light blue and white spots.

This and the two following pieces differ from 1795 and 1796 in the quality and color of the glaze and in the fabric, which is less fine, harder, and grayish white rather than yellow. They were originally inventoried as faïence (see Lucas 1962, pp. 156--157 for the many varieties of that material), but the fabric is less uniform than is usual for faïence. The description of Glazed Ware A, imported to Antioch in the 2nd and 1st centuries (Antioch IV, i, p. 80), fits these pieces; for the shape cf. ibid., pl. XIV:1010k.