Agora Object: AP 2560
Inventory Number:   AP 2560
Title:   Deep Bowl: Patterned
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mycenaean skyphos, incomplete.
Buff clay, interior dark and red slip. Exterior, band about neck, and double one below the handles, also bands over the handle attachments.
ADDENDA 2018: Two fragments added from lot 478 (VII B and VI C), a body fragment with stump of handle (frag. b), and a rim sherd (frag. d); one fragment added from lot 502, a body sherd (frag. c).
Large deep bowl with flaring rim and one preserved horizontal round-section handle. Base is not preserved.
Decoration consists of medium band on exterior of lip, and two medium bands running below the handles. A narrow quirk chain decorates the space between the handles. The preserved handle appears to be tri-splashed (although the apex is missing).
The interior is monochrome as preserved. Paint is very streaky, and fired unevenly brown-black. No obvious signs of use-wear.
Furumark Shape: 284; Furumark Motif 1: 48
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Oscar Brooner Nb. no. 5. Aglaurion. 1937, II.
VI(3), VII(7), VIII(7), X(1), XI(3), UK(16).
Notebook Page:   73
Dimensions:   H. 0.158; Diam. (mouth) 0.181
H. 0.148; Diam. (rim) 0.180 (30%)
Chronology:   LH IIIB2/LH IIIC Early
Date:   13-15 April 1938
Bibliography:   Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 364, fig. 40,b.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939)
Card: AP 2560