Agora Object: P 38209
Inventory Number:   P 38209
Section Number:   ΒΖ 2161
Excavation Number:   martens:2017:f:59
Title:   Straight-sided Alabastron
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Nearly complete; missing two handles, minor chipping at rim, cracked at body and base, paint badly worn.
Short, cylindrical, straight-sided body; sloping shoulder; very low neck; small mouth with flaring rim. Base convex, but depressed at center. Small, horizontal handle high on shoulder; breaks for two others. Traces of solid paint on rim, neck, and handles. On shoulder, double wavy bands, framed at top and bottom by thin horizontal bands. Wide band at junction of body and shoulder. Around body, wavy band, again framed at top and bottom by horizontal bands. On underside, one band around the outer edge and two around the center.
Dark brown paint. Fine, yellow fabric.
Mycenaean LHIIIA1.
For shape, cf. P. Mountjoy, Guide to Identification (1986), pp. 57-58, fig. 65 (FS 93). For decoration, possibly as LHIIB, cf. Ibid., p. 38, no. 14 (FM 53).
AS 2228, soil sample from inside alabastron.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Level 4 of southeast undercut of Mycenaean Chamber Tomb J 1:10.
Notebook Page:   11624
PD Number:   DA 13419
Dimensions:   H. 0.057; Diam. (base) 0.081, (rim) 0.033-0.034
Material:   Ceramic
Chronology:   Mycenaean LHIIIA1
Date:   3 August 2017
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/19-1/11
Elevation:   51.173m.
Masl:   51.173m.
Deposit:   J 1:10
Lot:   Lot ΒΖ 2273
Basket:   martens:2017:b:36
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Hesperia 89 (2020), no. 4, pp. 599, 601, figs. 5, 8.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020)
Drawing: DA 13419
Images (13)
Deposit: J 1:10
Card: P 38209