Agora Object: P 29344
Inventory Number:   P 29344
Section Number:   Ω 1967
Title:   Amphora: West Slope
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Missing are parts of body, neck and lip; mended and restored in plaster. Low flaring base ring with two grooves on outside; squat body; high neck with slightly flaring lip; broad ribbon handles with masks at roots, rolls of clay at highest point; between the rolls and the masks, a face in relief and a lug. Between the handles on the neck, from top to bottom: a cornucopia with fillets, floral pattern and dots (grapes), fillet and torches, all done in white and added clay; a band in relief painted with clay with a lug at either end; dolphins in added clay sporting over a wave pattern, which lies on two lines, and a row of dots in added clay. On shoulder: alternating checkerboards and diminishing rectangles; scratched grooves offset shoulder above and below; garlands around base of handles.
Buff clay. Metallic black glaze.
Context:   Cistern.
Notebook Page:   2833
Negatives:   Leica, 88-21-24, 88-21-26
Dimensions:   H. 0.223; Diam. 0.186
Date:   May 1971
Section:   Ω
Grid:   Ω:53/ΝΕ
Elevation:   -3.95--3.95m.
Masl:   -3.95m.
Deposit:   P 21:4
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 60 (1991), no. 49, p. 80, pl. 27.
    Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 155, n. 78, pl. 33e.
    Agora XXIX, no. 421, fig. 27, pl. 41.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIX
Publication: Hesperia 42 (1973)
Publication: Hesperia 60 (1991)
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 326, p. 287
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 584, p. 545
Image: 2012.76.1282 (88-21-24)
Image: 2012.76.1283 (88-21-25)
Image: 2012.76.1284 (88-21-26)
Object: Agora XXIX, no. 421
Deposit: P 21:4
Notebook: Ω-15
Notebook: Ω-16
Notebook Page: Ω-15-21 (pp. 2833-2834)
Notebook Page: Ω-16-82 (pp. 3154-3155)
Card: P 29344
Card: P 29344