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Most of the nozzle missing.
Vertical strap handle. Ribbed upper body with an unpierced double knob on each side. Ring foot, rising beneath.
The mold much worn. Pinkish-buff clay, dull black glaze much ... About the middle of 3rd. quarter of 3rd. century B.C.-earliest years of 2nd. century B.C ... About the middle of 3rd. quarter of 3rd. century B.C.-earliest years of 2nd. century ... -15.35m. |
| Originally two non-joining fragments catalogued as belonging perhaps to a krater or a stamnos. After the addition of fragment c) the shape was identified as an amphora(?).
a) Fragment from lower body: ... July 1946 ... Hesperia Suppl. 31 (2003), no. 7, p. 32, fig. 2.5, pl. 2 ... Monaco (2000), [A,II,3; A,II,4], p. 168; [A,II,5], p. 169. |
Fish-plate.
Segment of plate from rim to edge of depression.
Low, flaring ring foot; broad, beveled resting surface; convex underside. Concave floor. Groove around depression. Narrow, heavy rim meets ... Context of before ca. 180 ... fish-plates see PF II, p. 35; Samaria III, no. 2, p. 265, ... ii, nos. 453--460, p. 35, |
Fragment of nozzle.
Large, rather short, nozzle, triangular, with a narrow flat band extending along the neck and round the edge of the nozzle; large wick hole.
On rim, small bit preserved shows trace ... 20 July 1931 ... P.L. (of nozzle) 0.054 |
Low base. Wide flat rim sunk below top of side wall. No handle. Most of nozzle missing. Mold made.
Pierced lug set well back on one side.
Metallic black glaze. Grayish to buff clay.
Type XVI (glazed variety) ... 22 May-6 June 1935 ... E 14:1.2 |
| Complete.
Thin brown glaze inside; a brown band around the top of each handle; also around the underside of the foot; dot and circle at center. Two wide purple-red bands below the handles; the other decoration ... Early 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. II 2, p. 23, fig. 9. |
Low disk foot.
Red glaze.
For the decorative motif in the handle zone, see Young, Hesperia, Suppl. II, 1939, p. 217; two later examples, Ath. Mitt. 88, 1973, pl. 8:1, no. 3, 2, no. 2 ... MG II ... Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 212, p. 57, pl. 18. |
| Inscribed column drum.
The drum is one of a series which have been used in building the wall. Found stands upright in the tower.
Two dowel cuttings in the top. It was uncovered in the earlier excavations ... 17 January 1936 ... 0.12m. below the top of the |
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