Agora Object: AP 1318
Inventory Number:   AP 1318
Title:   Lid Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Fragment from a straight-walled pyxis lid; part of the edge preserved.
Flat topped lid; vertical collar on underside.
Pattern of incised concentric circles filled with traces of creamy, white pigment. Deep, carefully designed incisions.
Coarse gritty micaceous pinkish brown clay; fired pale gray-brown at the core, darker at the outer surface. No slip.
Probably Cycladic.
Context:   Hazel D. Hansen, Nb. No. 16
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. 0.071; Th. 0.007
Chronology:   Early Helladic
Date:   March-April 1937
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Gauss (2000), p. 169, 170, fig. 1:9.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 545. fig. 4.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 6 (1937)
Image: 2015.04.0693
Card: AP 1318