Agora Object: P 17079
Inventory Number:   P 17079
Section Number:   ΒΒ 666
Title:   Amphora
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Both handles, most of neck and rim missing; restored in plaster. Flaring ring foot; ovoid body, slightly concave neck, rounded lip.
At point of greatest diameter a zone of maeander, flanked above and below by triple bands, zigzag, bands, tooth pattern and more bands. Half way between this zone and foot, a zone of tooth pattern with double bands above and below. The rest of body and foot solidly glazed. On neck, reserved panels front and back, containing: maeander, with bands above and below, and zones with alternating standing and hanging teeth with dots between. Reserved band at lip, decorated with vertical lines interrupted by butterflies.
Pinkish-buff clay; good black glaze, in places somewhat metallic and peeled.
Context:   Geometric grave.
Notebook Page:   1270
Negatives:   Leica, XXVI-61
PD Number:   PD 2774-95
Dimensions:   Rest. H. 0.783; Diam. 0.43
Date:   15 January 1944
Section:   ΒΒ
Grid:   ΒΒ:3-4/Μ-ΜΑ
Deposit:   R 20:1
Lot:   Lot ΒΒ 216
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   JdI 74 (1959), p. 95, noted.
    Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 197, pl. XLI.
    Agora XXXVI, no. T17-1, p. 182, figs. 2.104, 2.105.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 16 (1947)
Image: 2007.04.0004 (XXVI-61)
Image: 2012.51.1125 (XXVI-61)
Deposit: R 20:1
Notebook: ΟΟ-6
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-6-44 (pp. 1078-1079)
Card: P 17079
Card: P 17079