Agora Object: P 21993
Inventory Number:   P 21993
Section Number:   Σ 2740
Title:   Three-Handled Jar
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Six joining fragments preserve most of rim and neck and about half the upper part of the body, including all one handle and the beginning of the root of another. Body tapers sharply downward. Rounded sloping shoulder. Slightly concave neck. Flat rim, projecting toward the outside. Horizontal handles, rooted in the shoulder and sharply upturned. Glaze covers the rim, all the interior of the neck and the upper part of the exterior, and the outside of the handles. There are glazed bands at varying intervals around the base of the neck and the body, and a reserved zone at the level of the handles is filled with a row of vertical strokes. The interior is reserved.
Soft buff clay. Red glaze, much worn. Traces of pale white wash.
Notes:   Fallen into well from Mycenaean grave at 44/Ζ most probably.
Context:   Well, boxes 18, 20, 24, 25, 34, 58.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.08; Diam. (rim) 0.071
Date:   May-June 1951
Section:   Σ
Grid:   Σ:45/Θ
Deposit:   O 7:7
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 62.
    Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 106, pl. 26c.
    Agora XIII, no. XIII-3.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Hesperia 21 (1952)
Publication: Hesperia 22 (1953)
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 221, p. 200
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 292, p. 271
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 352
Image: 1997.20.0427 (XLVIII-4)
Image: 2012.53.0182 (XLVIII-4)
Deposit: O 7:7
Card: P 21993
Card: P 21993