Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1589 Dimensions: | | Rest. H. 9.4; rest. Diam. 9.5. | Chronology: | | Context of 110 to early 1st century after Christ | Deposit: | | N 19:1, upper fill (Group F) | Bibliography: | | Agora V, F 25, p. 13, pl. 1. | Published Number: | | AV 29.1589 | References: | | Object: P 8915
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Barbotine Cup Or Jug.
Lower body and most of wall and rim restored.
Ovoid body, upper two-thirds decorated with five rows of barbotine bosses. Body angles in to rim at top. Low rim, convex to outside.
Hard, fine, grayish brown fabric (10YR 5/2) with small white inclusions and some mica; thick, shiny black glaze outside and on inside of rim.
Small fragment of a piece with similar decoration: P 15690 (S 21:3, context of first half of 1st century after Christ).
Cf. Antioch IV, i, p. 42, fig. 23:7, 8; Paphos III, no. 11, pp. 61--62, pl. XXII (Hayes dates these beakers in the early Roman period and identifies them tentatively as Knidian).
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