Agora Object: P 27450
Inventory Number:   P 27450
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1134
Title:   Krater
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from thirty-one pieces. One piece missing below handle; rim chipped. Somewhat restored in plaster. Tall amphoroid krater with torus-disc foot, vertical strap handles from belly to rim, out-turned rim. Rim and foot glazed solid; handles edged with vertical bands, crossed with diagonal bars, framed by thin vertical stripes at ends of 'picture field'; three bands below handles, one above foot. Decoration of three curtailed Argonauts sailing left on each side with conventional formulaic seaweed and trefoil rockwork or rosette motives above and below. Argonauts go over side stripes and touch top stripe.
Pale buff clay full of grit and pocks, prominent wheel ridges, fine buff slip, clear light red glaze.
Probably Furumark, MP type 6 (III A:1) or 7 (III A:2 early), motive 22, no. 16 (III A:1) 17 no. 18 (II B-III A:1).
Context:   Chamber tomb, below Middle Stoa terrace, opposite Pier 20. Fragments scattered all over north half of tomb; base resting on wood above head of Burial Δ.
Notebook Page:   2063
Negatives:   Leica, 84-215, 84-216, 84-361, 84-435, 84-436, 84-437, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.33; Diam. (w/handles) 0.43, (rim) 0.34
Date:   3-10 August 1965
Section:   ΜΣ
Deposit:   N 12:4
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Camp (1986), p. 29.
    Hesperia 35 (1966), p. 73, pls. 22a, 22b.
    Agora XIII, no. XL-3.
    Agora XIV, p. 4, pl. 16b.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Agora XIV
Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966)
Publication Pages (6)
Images (30)
Deposit: N 12:4
Card: P 27450
Card: P 27450