Inventory Number: | P 8557 | |
Section Number: | ΚΚ 922 | |
Title: | Amphora: West Slope | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Top, one handle and numerous fragments missing. Restored in plaster. A West Slope amphora of unusual shape and twisted handles, at the base of which a mask. Pendent grapes on the neck in thick yellow. Decreasing rectangles on the shoulder. A groove at the base of the neck. Below the handles, another groove and a band of ovolos stamped. On the body of the vase below this, scenes in Megarian bowl technique above elongated palmettes that encircle the base; a ship with two oarsmen and a helmsman between Eros on a goat with dog, and a flying Eros. Rosettes in the field. Base, broad and flaring with a rosette beneath. Clay sandy and micaceous, non-Attic(?). Glaze much mottled and peeled. | |
Context: | Cistern system 3, east chamber, strosis 3(?), dark earth and dug bedrock. | |
Negatives: | Leica, XLV-61 | |
PD Number: | PD 370, PD 901-84 | |
Dimensions: | Diam. 0.173; P.H. ca. 0.24 | |
Date: | 8-9 June 1936 | |
Section: | ΚΚ | |
Grid: | ΚΚ:69/Λ | |
Elevation: | Ca. -3.70m. | |
Masl: | -3.7m. | |
Deposit: | E 6:1 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Agora XXII, no. 407, pp. 1, 29, 31, 39 | |
References: | Publication: Agora XXII Publication Pages (6) Drawing: PD 370 (DA 6363) Drawing: PD 901-84 (DA 5986) Image: 2012.52.1462 (XLV-61) Deposit: E 6:1 Notebook: ΚΚ-7 Notebook Page: ΚΚ-7-25 (pp. 1239-1240) Notebook Page: ΚΚ-7-60 (pp. 1309-1310) Notebook Page: ΚΚ-7-61 (pp. 1311-1312) Card: P 8557 Card: P 8557 |