Agora Object: AP 1071
Inventory Number:   AP 1071
Title:   Krater Fragment: Pictorial
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Part of neck of large Mycenaean vase.
Red bands and three spiral lines (arms an octopus?) on buff.
ADDENDA 2018: Single sherd to a medium krater with horizontal, flat rim.
The exterior decoration consists of a lip band with a medium band running below the rim. The handle zone is panelled with side triglyphs with vertical zigzag fill. The central motif is a stylized argonaut.
The interior features a lip band with a medium band running below the rim. The flat surface of the rim is monochrome.
The paint is thick, evenly applied, and fired reddish-brown throughout. There are no traces of use-wear or burning.
Furumark Shape: 282; Furumark Motif 1: 75; Furumark Motif 2: 61; Furumark Motif 3: 22
Notes:   Among Aglaurion sherds. Drawer I.
Context:   Dorothy A. Schierer, Nb. No. 11.
UK(1)
Notebook Page:   78
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. 0.115
H. 0.085; Diam. (rim) 0.290 (14%)
Chronology:   LH IIIC Middle
Date:   2 June 1937
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 359, fig. 36,a.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939)
Image: 2015.05.0524
Image: 2015.05.0525
Image: 2015.05.0526
Card: AP 1071