Agora Object: P 23535
Inventory Number:   P 23535
Section Number:   ΣΑ 1982
Title:   Hydria
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Υδρία διακοσμημένη με χταπόδι 1425 - 1400 π.Χ. (;)
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces, parts of neck and walls and of one horizontal handle restored in plaster. Small ring foot; globular body; flaring mouth; thick band handle from rim; rolled horizontal handles.
An octopus motive is repeated three times on the shoulder, twice upright, once sideways; on the lower wall, groups of narrow bands. Rim, handles, base of neck and foot glazed.
Buff clay and surfacing. Glaze dark to very light brown, considerably worn. The suckers on the tentacles of the octopus are indicated in white.
A small hole (Diam. ca. 0.005m.) was bored through the floor and the ring foot of the vase, directly at the center front, before firing.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Υδρία με σφαιρικό σώμα και δακτυλιόσχημη βάση. Στο ύψος του ώμου του αγγείου, διακρίνεται παράσταση χταποδιού.
Context:   Mycenaean Tomb to east of Stoa Shop 19 (ΣΑ 2).
Notebook Page:   2688
Negatives:   Leica, LXI-69, LXI-70, LXI-85, LXI-86, color slide
PD Number:   PD 1735, Ptg. 347, Ptg. 348
Dimensions:   H. 0.141; Diam. 0.135
Date:   9 July 1953
Section:   ΣΑ
Deposit:   R 7:2
Lot:   Lot ΣΑ 417
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Langenbucher (2007), p. 80, figs. 84B, C.
    Agora XIII, no. XXVI-1.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 249, p. 228
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 293, p. 272
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 361
Plans and Drawings (4)
Images (44)
Deposit: R 7:2
Card: P 23535
Card: P 23535