Agora Object: P 6695
Inventory Number:   P 6695
Section Number:   ΠΘ 280
Title:   Vessel with Lid and Incised Decoration: Stamped
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Σφαιρική πυξίδα και πώμα με εμπίεστη και χαρακτή διακόσμηση
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces; a few fragments from rim and wall missing, and about half of the lid.
a) Round-bodied pot with small flattened bottom and two pierced lug handles (one missing), at the rim. In handle zone a row of stamped concentric circles, made by pressing the end of a tube into the clay. Below, front and back, parallel incised vertical lines, with horizontal hatching to right and left: diagonal arm-like lines on each side at top. Between, four rows of stamped circles, single, double, double, over single. Vertical hatching around bottom.
b) Convex dome-like lid with high columnar handle, ending in a flat knob. Pierced lugs. Vertical hatching around edge. At center of each side, an incised vertical line, with diagonal hatching; double impressed circle to each side. Another on top of handle, and hatching on outer face of knob.
Soft brown-buff clay with gray buff surface. Handmade.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Πυξίδα με σφαιροειδές σώμα και κυλικόσχημο κάλυμμα. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το χείλος, το σώμα του αγγείου και το περίπου μισό τμήμα του καλύμματος. Φέρει εμπίεστη και εγχάρακτη γραμμική διακόσμηση.
Context:   Grave 6.
Negatives:   Leica, 84-375, LVII-16, color slide
PD Number:   PD 2774-21
Dimensions:   Diam. a) (pot) 0.0835; Est. Diam. b) (lid) 0.055; H. a) (pot) 0.077, b) (lid) 0.049
Date:   3-6 February 1936
Section:   ΠΘ
Grid:   ΠΘ:6/ΝΖ
Deposit:   C 9:13
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 171, noted under nos. 54-56; p. 171, n. 20, p. 172, under no. 54.
    Agora XXXVI, no. T52-18, pp. 369-370, fig. 2.256.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 30 (1961)
Images (41)
Deposit: C 9:13
Card: P 6695
Card: P 6695