Agora Object: P 8623
Inventory Number:   P 8623
Section Number:   ΚΚ 996
Title:   Dish Fragment with Sgraffito Decoration
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Τμήμα λεπτεγχάρακτου πινακίου με παράσταση του Διγενή Ακρίτα με το Δράκοντα 12ος αι.
Category:   Pottery
Description:   From a large dish with flat floor, upturned rim, and a low ring foot. One rim fragment does not join. Akritas, at right, holds a bow. At left, the head of the dragon bends over, its neck pierced with five arrows.
Coarse buff clay; yellow glaze over white slip inside and over rim outside.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Τμήμα καρποδόχης με χαρακτή παράσταση Διγενή Ακρίτα (Sgraffito).
Context:   Cistern, below strosis.
Notebook Page:   824, 1353
Negatives:   Leica, XXIII-40, XXV-52, 82-565, color slide
PD Number:   PD 485
Dimensions:   Est. Diam. 0.31; H. 0.083
Chronology:   12th.-13th. c.
Date:   20 April-1 May 1936
Section:   ΚΚ
Grid:   ΚΚ:65/ΙΑ
Elevation:   -1.40m.
Masl:   -1.4m.
Deposit:   F 6:1
Period:   Byzantine
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 9, 187.
    Guide (1976), p. 278, fig. 148.
    Guide (1962), p. 187.
    AgoraPicBk 7 (1961), fig. 32.
    Hesperia 10 (1941), p. 9.
References:   Publication: AgoraPicBk 7 (1961)
Publication: Hesperia 10 (1941)
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Drawing: PD 485 (DA 6534)
Images (9)
Deposit: F 6:1
Notebook: ΚΚ-5
Notebook: ΚΚ-7
Notebook Page: ΚΚ-5-17 (pp. 823-824)
Notebook Page: ΚΚ-7-82 (pp. 1353-1354)
Card: P 8623