Agora Object: AP 2545
Inventory Number:   AP 2545
Title:   Mug: Patterned
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mycenaean tankard, fragmentary.
Exterior one wide and one narrower red band around base; groups of narrow vertical lines with zigzags between them; these vertical lines have scallop pattern framing them; traces of a spiral (?). Interior: three concentric red bands on bottom of vase; red bands around interior sides of vase.
Buff clay, red paint.
ADDENDA 2018: Nine sherds mended into a single large fragment of a mug with splaying concave base and a vertical strap handle.
The exterior decoration is panelled and consists of a central triglyph opposite the handle with vertical zigzag fill and joining semicircle fringe flanked on one side by two side triglyphs with vertical zigzag fill, and one the other side by a possible bird(?). The flat base has two or three irregular streaks of paint that seem unintentional.
The interior is banded with three medium bands on the flat bottom of the mug and two medium bands at the waist.
The paint is thick and evenly applied for the most part, however, it is very unevenly fired, pink to dark brown. There are slight traces of use-wear around the edge of base, showing that it had been used for some time. There are no signs of burning.
Furumark Shape: 226; Furumark Motif 1: 75; Furumark Motif 2: 61; Furumark Motif 3: 42; Furumark Motif 4: 7
Context:   Oscar Broneer, Nb. No. 5. Aglaurion, ca. 5.50-6.70m.
WA(1), IV(4), VI(1), VII(1), VIII(1), IX(1)
Notebook Page:   71
Dimensions:   H. 0.14; Diam (base) ca. 0.155, (mouth) ca. 0.17
H. 0.102; Diam. (base) 0.153 (63%)
Chronology:   LH IIIC
Date:   19 May 1937
20 May 1937
9 June 1937
10 June 1937
11 June 1937
2 April 1938
3 April 1938
4 April 1938
5 April 1938
Elevation:   5.50-6.70m.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 373, fig. 55,b.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939)
Card: AP 2545
Card: AP 2545