Agora Object: P 4639
Inventory Number:   P 4639
Section Number:   Β 1122
    Ζ 1494
    Ζ 1552
    Ε 507
Title:   Black Figure Kothon Fragments
Category:   Pottery
Description:   From a closed pot with rounded body. Below the ground line, tops of rays.
a) Front part of duck walking left; purple red on wing; part of ground line of upper frieze above.
b) From same frieze: back end of duck walking left. Later joining fragment (Ζ 1552) adds front part of duck and back part of another; rays below, band above.
c) (Ζ 1494) A band of ducks moving right, bounded above by a broad band, inside of which appear the tips of slender rays. This piece would seem to be from the upper of two duck zones, on the shoulder of a kothon or kothon-like vase.
d) (Ε 507) From the upper zone, with most of one duck right, and a bit of another. A band and rays, above. Considerable remains of added purple.
Pink clay, creamy slip outside; the glaze dull black to red.
Notes:   Section Ζ notebook pp. 2281, 2333; section E notebook p. 1001.
Context:   a), b) Red fill with stones. Later b) fragment: Tholos Trench F, Kitchen Dump Well, between burning and bottom of first curb stone. c) Tholos Trench T, layer (b). d) Stoa Pit H, layer VI.
Negatives:   Leica, 7-424
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 0.049, b) 0.043; P.W. a) 0.031, b) (w/added fragment) 0.095, d) 0.051; Max. Dim. c) 0.062
Date:   15 February 1935
Section:   Β
    Ζ
    Ε
Grid:   Β:34-38/Ε-ΣΤ
Elevation:   56.5-56.5m.
Masl:   56.5m.
Deposit:   F-G 12:1
    G-I 11-12
    H 12:6
    H 8-10
Lot:   Lot Ζ 464
    Lot Ζ 465
    Lot Ε 387
    Lot Β 272
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. B 41, p. 119, fig. 86.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939)
Image: 2012.26.0156 (7-424)
Deposits (4)
Lot: Β 272
Lot: Ζ 464
Lot: Ζ 465
Notebooks (5)
Notebook Pages (9)
Card: P 4639
Card: P 4639