Agora Object Agora XXIX, no. 1572

Dimensions:		H. 6.4; Diam. 7.4.
Chronology:		2nd or 1st century? (context mainly of 3rd century after Christ but with two late Hellenistic coins [ΓΓ-211, ΓΓ-212])
Published Number:		AV 29.1572
References:		Object: P 15012

Thymiaterion.

Part of rim and wall missing.

Conical stand, flaring at bottom. Deep, spreading bowl. Irregularity to right of break suggests that there may have been a single handle. Hard, fine, reddish yellow fabric (5YR 6/6) with black and white inclusions; thick, white slip.

Cf. Belov 1962, p. 171, fig. 33 (2nd century). Also somewhat similar are Sciatbi, no. 250, p. 85, pl. LIX:136 and five unglazed cups from an Augustan grave at Priene (Priene, no. 112, p. 428, fig. 545:4).