Inventory Number: | AP 2558 | |
Title: | Deep Bowl: Linear | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Mycenaean skyphos; foot and other parts missing. Buff clay, with dark slip on interior. Exterior: band about mouth and simple one underneath handles. Slip on handle. ADDENDA 2018: Frag. b, one rim sherd added from lot UK. Because of original plaster restoration, frag. b cannot be mended. Medium-sized deep bowl with flaring rim and one preserved horizontal, round-section handle. The base is not preserved. Decoration is linear on exterior with a medium band at the rim and a fairly narrow band below the handles. A single splash decorates the handle. The interior is monochrome. The paint is evenly fired dark-brown to black. ADDENDA 2020: Twenty-one sherds mended into two large fragments and four non-joining sherds to a medium-sized deep bowl with flaring rim, one preserved horizontal round handle, and a low ring base. Decoration is linear on exterior with a medium band at the rim and a medium band below the handles. The exterior of the foot is undecorated. A single splash decorates the handle. The interior is monochrome. The paint is evenly fired dark-brown to black. In the interior of the base there is a heavy degree of use-wear caused by scraping out the lowest contents. There are no traces of burning. Pale buff fabric exceptionally clean; only occasional small to medium rounded calcareous inclusions, rare subrounded brown to reddish-brown rock fragments, rounded voids, and sparse silver mica Furumark Shape: 284 | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Oscar Brooner, Nb. no. 5. Aglaurion, ca. 0-3m.(II). 2018: I(2), II(2), VII(1), VI/XI (1), UK(8). 2020: I(2), II(5), III(1), V(1), VI(1), VII(1), UK(10). | |
Notebook Page: | 69 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.130; Diam. (mouth) 0.154 H. 0.113; Diam. (rim) 0.155 (32%) Diam. (rim) 0.155 (62%), (base) 0.056 (100%) | |
Chronology: | LH IIIC Early | |
Date: | 5-13 May 1937 21-22 March 1928 | |
Elevation: | 0-3m. | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 370, fig. 49,a. | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939) Card: AP 2558 |