Agora Object: P 6163
Inventory Number:   P 6163
Section Number:   Η 577
Title:   Krater
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Complete save for a few fragments from the walls. Ring foot; egg-shaped body finished at the top with a plain edge, no neck or rim. Two horizontal handles at point of greatest circumference.
Glazed inside; outside, a broad band around the bottom; above this, horizontal bands, widely spaced. In the handle zone, three narrower bands, close together, finished next to the handles by three vertical stripes on each side. Above the handle zone, four more stripes, and a broader one at the lip. Bands over the handles, and beside the attachments.
Buff clay slipped. Thin glaze black to brown; somewhat peeled.
ADDENDA (Oct. 2020): One fragment (b) added from Lot 65a.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Geometric well.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-245
PD Number:   Ptg. 300, PD 2773-46
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.355; H. 0.325
Date:   20 June 1935
Section:   Η
Grid:   Η:60/Ι
Elevation:   -5.5--5.5m.
Masl:   -5.5m.
Deposit:   L 6:2
Lot:   Lot Η 65
Basket:   6, 7
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Papadopoulos (2007b), p. 107, fig. 106.
    Hesperia Suppl. 31 (2003), no. 89, p. 107, fig. 2.49.
    Monaco (2000), [A,VII], p. 174.
    Hesperia 67 (1998), pp. 109-123, pl. 15.
    Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 128, noted under no. N 6.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 32, fig. 32.
References:   Publications (4)
Drawing: PD 2773-46 (DA 5367)
Drawing: DA 10707
Images (7)
Deposit: L 6:2
Lot: Η 65
Notebook: Η-7
Notebook Page: Η-7-56 (pp. 1249-1250)
Notebook Page: Η-7-60 (pp. 1257-1258)
Card: P 6163