Agora Object: Agora XII, no. 1723
Chronology:   Context ca. 520-480 B.C.
Deposit:   R 12:1
Published Number:   AV 12.1723
References:   Object: P 20812
Rim and shoulder fragments.

Large open pot; uptilted horizontal handle. Wide mouth with flaring rim, narrow vertical face undercut by groove; groove and ridge mark start of sloping shoulder. Handle heavily ridged on outer face. Coarse pinkish clay gray at core and somewhat micaceous; yellow buff slip. Polychrome decoration in thin dull brownish black glaze with added white and purplish red: black on rim, outside of handle and for a broad band covering junction of neck and shoulder; band of white over black above neck ridge, another on shoulder and a third at top of unglazed handle-zone; red for a wavy line below rim and for a large band of scalloping on shoulder.

Uncertain fabric. For the deep wavy line, both tight and loose, on banded household ware, see Larisa, III, pl. 49, 17, 21-23; also, from Chios, B.S.A., XXXV, 1934-35, p. 160, pl. 37, 28 (Lamb) and, for the fabric, Δελτ., II, 1916, pp. 205- 206, figs. 24-25 (Kourouniotes). Miss Lamb (loc. cit.) described a thick coarse ware "usually covered with white slip and boldly but simply decorated in black and red."