Agora Object: Agora XII, no. 1721 Chronology: | | Context ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier. | Deposit: | | O 16:1-2 | Published Number: | | AV 12.1721 | References: | | Object: P 23291
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Rim and wall.
One-handler (?). At edge of break below, a little of a raised edge. Suspension hole in rim. Light red clay with small white bits; warm buff surfacing. Matt black glaze wash on rim, just covering edge outside and continuing for broad band inside; narrow band in thin brown below, and a second near center of the floor.
Similar partial glazing is found on plain phialai in different fabrics and from different sites; cf., from Athens, Syntagma Cemetery (Acropolis Museum): Ἐφ., 1958, pl. 23 below (Grave XLIV = 65). The shallow open shape of 1721 would suit a phiale, as would the suspension hole, but not the bit of ring foot; more likely this was a one-handler, and possibly Rhodian; cf. the pair from Ialysos (no number): Cl. Rh., VIII, p. 152, fig. 138, below, left (Grave 30).
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