Agora Object: SS 4624
Inventory Number:   SS 4624
Section Number:   Π 599
Title:   Unguentarium
Category:   SS Misc.
Description:   Mended from many pieces and many pieces missing; restored in plaster; the tip broken away; cigar-shaped body; plain slightly flaring, pinched lip (for pouring?); the nearly straight neck set off from shoulder by a ridge.
Fine hard red-brown clay, burnt grey on outside, micaceous; droppings of thin glaze.
Near the bottom, a deep circular stamp.
Source: should be Cibyra W. Pisidia-fringe of Lycia/Phrygia) see S. Japp, Anatolian Studies 59 (2009)
Notes:   The objects SS 4624-SS 4644 (Π 599-Π 619) were found all close together in a very late Roman fill. With them was coin no. 1 of 5 June 1935; coins nos. 2 and 3 of the same date are probably also valid for this filling (notebook, p. 108).
Fragments of six similar vases, with illegible stamps as well as a number of fragments of necks, mouths, walls and base, found with these, are preserved in the sherd storage.
Context:   Very late Roman fill, undisturbed.
Writing:   square with diagonals (in O)
Notebook Page:   944
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   Est. Diam. 0.047; H. (as restored) 0.218
Chronology:   Late Roman
Date:   5 June 1935
Section:   Π
Grid:   Π:37/ΛΖ
Deposit:   O 13:4
Lot:   Lot Π 62
Bibliography:   Agora XXXII, no. 1778, pl. 90, 91.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXII
Image: 2007.01.3308
Image: 2007.01.3309
Deposit: O 13:4
Card: SS 4624
Card: SS 4624