Agora Object: P 21252
Inventory Number:   P 21252
Section Number:   Η 706
Title:   Alabastron
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Complete except for fragments of underside. Squat body, flat bottom. Neck and handles glazed; around top of shoulder three narrow bands; then ivy pattern: a leaf with curving double stem in each panel between the handles. Below, stylized rounded-crest wave pattern. Two narrow bands at junction of upper body and underside. Beneath, wheel pattern: closed central spiral from which four pairs of wavy zigzags radiate to the edge.
Greenish-gray clay; black glaze badly worn.
(LH II b) - ? III A
Context:   Mycenaean chamber tomb at north side of Temple of Ares. Pot #16.
Notebook Page:   1459, 1475
Negatives:   Leica, LV-78, LVII-50, LVII-51, 83-556
PD Number:   PD 1383, Ptg. 334, Ptg. 335
Dimensions:   H. 0.039; Diam. 0.091
Date:   9 May 1951
Section:   Η
Deposit:   J 7:2
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Langenbucher (2007), p. 86, figs. 90A, B.
    Hesperia 24 (1955), pp. 206-207, no. 4, figs. 5-6, pl. 73.
    Archaeology 4 (1951), p. 224.
    Agora XIII, no. VII-4.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Hesperia 24 (1955)
Publication Pages (4)
Drawing: PD 1383-a; PD 1383-b; PD 1383-c; PD 1383-d (DA 4947)
Drawing: DA 6740
Drawing: DA 13045
Images (9)
Deposit: J 7:2
Notebook: Η-8
Notebook: Η-9
Notebook Page: Η-9-8 (pp. 1543-1544)
Card: P 21252