Agora Object: P 1334
Inventory Number:   P 1334
Section Number:   Α 394
Title:   Amphora Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Lower part of large coarse amphora containing miltos(?).
Inside covered with copious red deposit, smeared also on part of broken edge.
ADDENDA Miltos tested for Fe+++ using acidified potassium ferroncyanide microchemical spot test (Odegaard, et al.: Material Characterization Tests for Objects in Art and Archaeology. London, 2000, p. 62-63). Test was positive indicating an iron oxide pigment (miltos) [Nov. 2000, J. Unruh, A. Jawando].
Notes:   Previously North Basement-Jar Fragments, Block I (Pre-Persian).
Context:   Rectangular rock cut shaft.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.193; Diam. (base) 0.062
Date:   August-September 1932
Section:   Α
Elevation:   -10.90m.
Masl:   -12m.
Deposit:   G 6:3.1
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 71(2002), p. 416, no. 1, fig. 1:A.
    Monaco (2000), p. 32, n. 92.
    Hesperia 15 (1946), p. 266, n. 6.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 15 (1946)
Deposit: G 6:3
Deposit: G 6:3.1
Notebook: Α-8
Notebook Page: Α-8-25 (pp. 1399-1400)
Card: P 1334