Agora Object: P 22551
Inventory Number:   P 22551
Section Number:   ΣΑ 1830
Title:   Amphora Fragment
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Αμφορέας με εραλδικές προτομές αλόγων 650 - 625 π.X.
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Preserved only to spring of neck; handles and large fragments of wall missing, including the upper part of the shoulder panel on one side. Shape, type II a (R-M).
Tongue pattern on foot; double series of rays around lower wall; wall panels bounded above by band of tongue pattern, below by band of "open maeander"; to either side by elaborate floral motive set below handle. Each panel occupied by a pair of horse protomes facing in and crossing forelegs. In field of panel are groups of zigzag lines, swastikas and a group of four dots.
Thin black glaze. Purple paint (fugitive) for forelocks of horses and for a triangular area toward front of neck, for heart of palmette in floral ornament and for a band at top of panels.
Incision for details of horses' heads.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Πρωτοαττικός αμφορέας. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το άνω τμήμα του ώμου, το στόμιο και οι λαβές. Στη βάση φέρει ακτινωτή διακόσμηση, ενώ στο σώμα διακρίνονται προτομές αλόγων, εκατέρωθεν των οποίων υπάρχουν γεωμετρικά και φυτικά κοσμήματα.
Context:   Well behind Stoa Shop XVIII, at bottom.
Notebook Page:   2906
Negatives:   Leica, LV-43, LV-44, LXI-88, color slide
PD Number:   Ptg. 346
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.283; Diam. 0.22, (base) 0.10
Date:   25 July 1952
Section:   ΣΑ
Elevation:   -10.8--10.8m.
Masl:   -10.8m.
Deposit:   R 8:2
Period:   Protoattic
Bibliography:   Hippos (2022), p. 4.
    Museum Guide (2014), p. 129.
    Papadopoulos (2007b), p. 140, fig. 130B.
    AgoraPicBk 24 (1998), p. 14, fig. 22.
    Guide (1976), p. 233.
    Guide (1962), p. 154.
    Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 347, no. G 4, pls. 68, 69.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 48, pl. 18d.
    Agora VIII, no. 573, p. 96, pl. 36.
References:   Publications (6)
Publication Pages (4)
Drawing: DA 13048
Images (15)
Deposit: R 8:2
Card: P 22551
Card: P 22551