Inventory Number: | P 3185 | |
Section Number: | Γ 183 | |
Title: | Amphora: West Slope | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Fragmentary; the base and one handle are missing; restored in plaster. Thick neck with broadly flaring lip; twisted handles with short spurs at the lower point of attachment; on the shoulder on either side there is a panel of checkerboard pattern between criss-cross hatching; the neck is encircled with an ivy wreath; the glaze has been scratched from shallow grooves around the top of the neck, the root of the neck, and the top of the side wall. The stems of the ivy leaves are incised. White was used for the alternate squares of the checkerboard, for the main stem and the berries of the ivy wreath, and for spirals on the side wall below the handles. Fine buff clay, the glaze mottled black and red. | |
Context: | Well, in north cistern arm. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 4-337, 4-379 | |
PD Number: | PD 1091-82, Ptg. 173 | |
Dimensions: | Est. Diam. (lip) 0.178; P.H. (lip to shoulder) 0.12 | |
Date: | 7 March 1934 | |
Section: | Γ | |
Grid: | Γ:96/Ι | |
Deposit: | F 15:2 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Rotroff (2007), p. 236, fig. 196B. | |
Hesperia 60 (1991), no. 98, fig. 22, pl. 41. | ||
Hesperia 3 (1934), no. E 59, fig. 88. | ||
Agora XXIX, no. 438, fig. 31, pl. 43. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXIX Publication: Hesperia 3 (1934) Publication: Hesperia 60 (1991) Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 329, p. 290 Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 561, p. 522 Drawing: PD 1091-82 (DA 6089) Drawing: DA 6783 Image: 2008.03.0303 Image: 2012.23.0105 (4-337) Object: Agora XXIX, no. 438 Deposit: F 15:2 Card: P 3185 Card: P 3185 |