Agora Object: P 36291
Inventory Number:   P 36291
Section Number:   ΟΑ 1414
Title:   Fragments of Wheelmade Amphoriskos
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Five joining fragments, preserving portion of rim, neck, shoulder and body.
Body and shoulder rounded; neck forming S-profile with body; neck flaring to plain rim with rounded lip. Paint mostly thickly applied and well adhering; mostly fired red, reddish brown where thickest on wavy line. Broad wavy line in belly-zone. Shoulder, neck and rim (including top of rim) painted solid. Broad band on rim interior. This is a rare example of an amphoriskos from a non-funerary context.
Fabric fine, close to pink 7.5 YR 7/4.
Notes:   Inventoried February 2009.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Klepsydra Area, East Cutting.
Notebook Page:   1577-8, 2551-2
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.095; P.W. (shoulder) 0.11; Est. Diam. (rim) 0.11
Date:   23-24 May 1940
Section:   ΟΑ
Deposit:   T 26-27:2
Lot:   Lot ΟΑ 327
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 20 (1982), p. 150, fig. 6.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 20 (1982)
Image: 2013.05.0841
Image: 2013.05.0842
Deposit: T 26-27:2
Card: P 36291