Agora Object: P 27456
Inventory Number:   P 27456
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1142
Title:   Krater
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Preserved: one-half of bowl, one handle and root of second, base. Mended from eleven pieces and restored in plaster. Amphoroid krater with two vertical flat strap handles from rim to bottom of decorated zone. Raised ring base with flat sides, concave foot, deep conical sagging bowl, thin rim everted at 90°. Foot and rim painted solid; one-two bands above foot, three below decorated zone, bands on handle edges looping below and one horizontal, one diagonal bar; thin stripes framing top and sides of decorated zone filled with scale-net pattern.
Very coarse pale buff clay with large pock marks, pits and grit particles; dirty green-buff slip, worn black-green paint mostly gone except on rim and handle.
MP type 6 (LH III A:1), motive 70 (II-III B).
Context:   Chamber tomb, below Middle Stoa terrace, opposite Pier 20. Under Burial Δ.
Notebook Page:   2063
Negatives:   Leica, 84-222, 84-361
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.285; Est. Diam. (rim) 0.31, (foot) 0.11
Date:   9-13 August 1965
Section:   ΜΣ
Deposit:   N 12:4
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Camp (1986), p. 29.
    Hesperia 35 (1966), p. 77, pls. 22a, 23e.
    Agora XIII, no. XL-11.
    Agora XIV, p. 4, pl. 16b.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Agora XIV
Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966)
Publication Pages (6)
Images (17)
Deposit: N 12:4
Card: P 27456
Card: P 27456