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 |