Agora Object: P 27455
Inventory Number:   P 27455
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1141
Title:   Amphora
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Complete but for chips from wall; mended from sixteen pieces. Same type as P 27448, but two vertical strap handles from rim to belly, faint ring foot nicely profiled, body well articulated. Paint all over outside and inside neck to 0.025m. Splash of paint under foot.
Fine pale buff clay, better prepared than any other in this tomb; very dilute streaky matte red-black paint.
Probably Furumark, MP type 66 or 67, but a variant in size and position of handles - LH II-III A-B.
Context:   Chamber tomb, below Middle Stoa terrace, opposite Pier 20. Under left leg and coffin of Δ.
Notebook Page:   2063
Negatives:   Leica, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.10; Diam. 0.105
Date:   10-11 August 1965
Section:   ΜΣ
Deposit:   N 12:4
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Camp (1986), p. 29.
    Hesperia 35 (1966), p. 76, pls. 22a, 24b.
    Agora XIII, no. XL-8.
    Agora XIV, p. 4, pl. 16b.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Agora XIV
Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966)
Publication Pages (6)
Images (13)
Deposit: N 12:4
Card: P 27455
Card: P 27455