Banded Fish-plate.

Over half of rim, part of floor and foot restored.

High foot; beveled resting surface. Floor concave with shallow groove around outer edge and around depression. Rim nearly horizontal, curved on top, separated from wall on exterior by groove. Reddish yellow fabric with little mica and many white inclusions; thin, brown glaze on depression, rim, and band on floor and on exterior except for lower part of foot and underside.

Similar: P 8573 (Rotroff 1983, no. 105, p. 297, fig. 6 on p. 269, pl. 61 [E 6:2, upper fill]).

The banded fish-plate was common on the coast of Turkey; many fragments may be observed on the beach at Kyme, and they are reported from Pergamon, Ephesos, Samos, and Lesbos (e.g. AvP XI, i, nos. 147, 152, 237, pp. 123--124, pls. 43, 48, 65; AvP XI, ii, nos. 244, 247, 248, 262, 264, 269, pp. 87--88, pl. 51:2; Mitsopoulou-Leon 1972--1975, col. 498; Samos XIV, p. 158, fig. 258 A, B [gray ware]; Archontidou-Argyri 1990, pl. 63), as well as on Delos and at Apollonia (Délos XXVII, D 68, p. 249, pl. 43; Apollonia, no. 625a, p. 232, pl. 122).