Agora Object: P 32414
Inventory Number:   P 32414
Section Number:   ΒΖ 261
Conservation Number:   902
    866
Title:   Black Figure Mesomphalic Phiale: Six's Technique
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended, about two-thirds complete. Low shallow bowl, omphalos inside at center with corresponding depression on outside. Outside reserved, except for outside of lip, which is glazed, concave and slightly out-turned. Decoration: within, on black background, the omphalos is decorated with five concentric circles in buff clay, now missing. Area around omphalos and the inside of the lip are decorated with thick radiating lines or debased tongues, also in added clay. In bottom of bowl between omphalos and lip, with the ground line toward the lip, six spotted cows walk around the bowl, three done in yellowish-buff clay with red spots and three in brick-red clay with buff spots. One red cow and two halves of light cows missing. Colors of cows alternate. Added clays fairly well preserved on bodies, fainter at legs and tails. No incision. Ghost images of painted letters around cows; letters indistinct blobs, making up nonsense inscriptions.
Cf. Agora XXIII, nos. 1427-1439, ca. 500 B.C.
Context:   Well.
Notebook Page:   1929
Negatives:   95-66-34, 96-15-23, 96-15-24, 98-25-12, 98-25-13, 98-25-14(15), 98-25-17(16)
PD Number:   PD 2770-5, DA 13545, DA 13546
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.188; H. 0.054-0.059
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   6 July 1995
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/6,7-2/19,20
Elevation:   46.00-45.90m.
Masl:   45.9-46m.
Deposit:   J 2:4
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 195, no. 23, fig. 39, ill. 14.
    Hesperia 65 (1996), p. 250, no. 34, fig. 9, pl. 75.
Published Type:   Agora XXIII, nos. 1427-1439.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication: Hesperia 65 (1996)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011)
Report: 1995 Excavations
Drawing: DA 13545
Drawing: DA 13546
Images (15)
Deposit: J 2:4
Card: P 32414
Card: P 32414