Agora Object: P 11959
Inventory Number:   P 11959
Section Number:   Α 1132
Title:   Pithos Fragments with Stamped Decoration
Category:   Pottery
Description:   A number of joining fragments preserve part of the body of a large pithos around which run two slightly raised bands averaging about 0.04m. wide. The bands are decorated with a geometric pattern of impressed circles and incised lines done while the clay was soft.
Rather coarse clay, buff at the core and reddish at the surface both inside and out. No glaze.
Context:   Rectangular rock cut shaft.
Negatives:   Leica, 8-39
Dimensions:   Est. Diam. (lower zone) 1.00-1.05; P.H. 0.45
Date:   September 1932
Section:   Α
Elevation:   -14.25 to -16.00m.
Masl:   -20--12m.
Deposit:   G 6:3.2
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Hesperia 7 (1938), no. 42, p. 402, fig. 38.
    Agora VIII, under no. 609.
    Agora XII, no. 1508, pl. 65 (detail).
    Agora XXXI, p. 124, 172.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 115, p. 101
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 132, p. 118
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 35, p. 408
Image: 2012.26.0317 (8-39)
Object: Agora XII, no. 1508
Deposit: G 6:3
Deposit: G 6:3.2
Notebook: Α-8
Notebook: Α-9
Notebook Page: Α-8-94 (pp. 1537-1538)
Notebook Page: Α-9-19 (pp. 1761-1762)
Card: P 11959