Agora Object: AP 2885
Inventory Number:   AP 2885
Title:   Stirrup Jar Fragment: Patterned
Category:   Pottery
Description:   False neck, handles and shoulder of stirrup vase decorated in Amarna style with narrow bands and degenerate floral pattern. Dark red paint on buff ground.
ADDENDA 2018: Six sherds mended into three non-joining fragments of a small, globular stirrup jar with slightly conical false spout with flaring rim.
The exterior decoration consists of fine band groups framed by medium bands on the body. The false spout is decorated with concentric circles. The handles are monochrome with small reserved triangles at the junction with the false spout. The rim of the spout has a narrow lip band. The shoulder is decorated with flower motif in the shoulder zone.
The paint is thick and evenly applied, fired brown. There are no traces of use-wear or burning.
Joined to AP 2881.
Furumark Shape: 175; Furumark Motif 1: 18
Notes:   Cf. slip of paper in the back of notebook Oscar Broneer, Nb. No. 5. (VI B).
Selected by AP Gilstrap for sampling. Not allowed. March 2013.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Oscar Broneer, Nb. No. 5. Aglaurion.
VI(3), VIII(1), XIII(1), UK(1)
Notebook Page:   72, 74
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. 0.10
H. 0.075; Diam. (rim) 0.021 (100%)
Date:   7-12 April 1938
Elevation:   7-9.50m.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 389, fig. 70,p.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939)
Card: AP 2885