Agora Object: Agora XII, no. 1554
Chronology:   Context ca. 420-390 B.C.
Deposit:   A-B 21-22:1
Published Number:   AV 12.1554
References:   Object: P 16969
Lekanis and fragments of lid (not illustrated).

Open bowl on small ring foot; rim flanged outside; narrow strap handles with long ribbon ends. Convex lid with down- turned rim. Clean hard red clay with gray core; carefully surfaced. Banded bichrome decoration; the glaze fired black outside; inside and on the lid, red. Outside, glaze on the rim and for a band around the wall; inside, on the wall two broad glaze bands, the space between filled with white, and a ring of glaze at the center of the floor. On the lid fragments, red glaze around the outer edge of the rim, set off above by a line of white. East Greek (?).

Somewhat similar fabric and banding, the small amphora 1474, Pl. 62; cf. also the banded bichrome bowls from Cyprus, e.g. S.C.E., II, pl. 45,2 and pl. 121, 7 (Marion Tomb 23-7).