Agora Object: P 9516
Inventory Number:   P 9516
Section Number:   Χ 391
Title:   Black Glaze Salt Cellar
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Small plain flat-bottomed bowl with slightly inturned lip. Miltos on interior, as if the pot had been used for mixing color.
Red to black glaze; thin brown wash on bottom.
Cf. Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 153, table II, no. 4.
In academic year 1935-36 S.W Midgley identified this pigment as Cinnabar, Natural Mercuric Sulfide. Also by E. Caley, 26 April 1937.
Context:   Well.
Negatives:   Leica, XLV-47, 82-512, 83-335
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.056; H. 0.03
Material:   Ceramic
Pigment
Date:   22 March 1937
Section:   Χ
Grid:   Χ:69/ΟΒ
Elevation:   Ca. -8.30m.
Masl:   -8.3m.
Deposit:   M 20:3 (L)
    M 20:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 70 (2001), p. 142, n. 9.
    Agora XII, no. 915, pl. 34.
Published Type:   Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 153, table II, no. 4.
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia 14 (1945)
Publication: Hesperia 70 (2001)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 33, p. 406
Image: 2012.56.0527 (82-512)
Image: 2012.56.1054 (83-335)
Object: Agora XII, no. 915
Deposit: M 20:3
Notebook: Χ-3
Notebook Pages (6)
Card: P 9516