Agora Object: P 27449
Inventory Number:   P 27449
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1133
Title:   Pyxis Alabastron
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Intact. Broad flat bottom lifting at edges, straight sides contracting inward toward shoulder, three small vertical handles on shoulder, low splaying neck, flat concave-splaying rim. On base, concentric rings, one at center, three at edge. Body stripes: two, three and two. Shoulder: single wavy line above degenerate ivy leaves(?) between each handle, framed by stripes. Neck and handles painted solid, stripe on reversed rim.
Fine, light buff clay full of grit and pocks, crackled brown-black paint worn in places.
Probably Furumark, MP type 93, LH III A:1.
Context:   Chamber tomb, below Middle Stoa terrace, opposite Pier 20. From above knees of Burial Β.
Notebook Page:   2063
Negatives:   Leica, 84-219, 84-361
Dimensions:   H. 0.10; Diam. (base) 0.15
Date:   4 August 1965
Section:   ΜΣ
Deposit:   N 12:4
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Camp (1986), p. 29.
    Hesperia 35 (1966), p. 73, pls. 22a, 23c.
    Agora XIII, no. XL-2.
    Agora XIV, p. 4, pl. 16b.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Agora XIV
Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966)
Publication Pages (6)
Images (14)
Deposit: N 12:4
Card: P 27449
Card: P 27449