Agora Object: P 19242
Inventory Number:   P 19242
Section Number:   ΟΟ 608
Title:   Skyphos
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Σκύφος
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces, some of which do not join; profile complete from foot to rim, with part of one horizontal rolled handle. Most of the body, all of the foot, and one handle restored. Deep rather pointed body slightly flared at the rim. Glazed to below handle zone; three bands between handle zone and glazed lower body. Handle zone divided front and back (apparently nearly identically) by sets of triple vertical lines into narrow columns and panels, decorated with (left to right):
1) Narrow column with zigzag.
2) Slightly wider column with lozenges tangent at their points.
3) Narrow column with zigzag.
4) Narrow panel with parallel horizontal zigzags.
5) Narrow column with zigzag.
6) Slightly wider column with triangles balanced on each other.
7) Narrow column with zigzag.
8) Narrow panel with hatched maeander, vertical, running to left.
9) Slightly wider column with large vertical zigzag, the points of the triangles to each side filled in with glaze, the bases dotted.
Two lines below the lip which is glazed. Handle panel reserved; outer face of unglazed handle decorated with glaze lines with hanging tail; another glaze line with hanging tail over handle attachment. Inside glazed, with reserved line at lip; center of floor not preserved.
Buff clay, gray where burned; thick solid black glaze, slightly shiny.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Σκυφοειδής κρατηρίσκος. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το σώμα, τη βάση και τη μία λαβή του αγγείου. Στο σώμα φέρει ζώνη, χωρισμένη σε εννέα κάθετες στήλες, εντός των οποίων διακρίνονται κοσμήματα μαιάνδρου και γεωμετρική διακόσμηση.
Context:   Geometric Grave; funeral pyre.
Notebook Page:   1633
Negatives:   Leica, XXXIV-10, XXXIV-95, LV-95, 84-369, color slide
PD Number:   PD 691, PD 2774-41
Dimensions:   Rest. H. 0.086; Diam. (rim) 0.112
Date:   8-10, 12 April 1948
Section:   ΟΟ
Grid:   ΟΟ:58/Ε
Deposit:   D 16:2
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Coldstream (1968), pl. 1:j.
    Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 166, noted under 45.
    JdI 74 (1959), p. 66, noted.
    Desborough (1952), pp. 54, 85.
    Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 294, no. 14, pl. 67:14, fig. 8.
    Agora XXXVI, no. T11-14, p. 92, fig. 2.43.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 18 (1949)
Publication: Hesperia 30 (1961)
Report: 1948 ΟΟ
Report Page: 1948 ΟΟ, s. 20
Drawing: PD 2394-1; PD 2394-2; PD 2394-6; PD 2394-7; PD 2394-8; PD 2394-9 (DA 5036)
Drawing: PD 2394-6 (DA 5007)
Drawing: DA 9955
Images (16)
Deposit: D 16:2
Notebook: ΟΟ-8
Notebook: ΟΟ-9
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-8-45 (pp. 1480-1481)
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-9-94 (pp. 1778-1779)
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-9-95 (pp. 1780-1781)
Card: P 19242
Card: P 19242