Inventory Number: | H 434 | |
Title: | Tankard | |
Description: | Triple verticals divide the neck into five panels; on either side of handle, narrow panels of latticing; then, square panels with long-legged birds facing center, vertical dot rows and dot rosettes in field; at front, a four-spoked wheel, dots between spokes, stroke-fringe around outside. Dot series on upper edge of rim; inside unglazed. Dull glaze, black to dark brown. For tankard neck panels with birds and dot rosettes cf. Brann L 20. For wheel motif cf. J. Bouzek, Eirene 8, 1970, pp. 98-101 and J.L. Benson, Horse, Bird, and Man, Amherst, Mass., 1970, pp. 67-68. Also, P. Courbin, La ceramique geometrique de l' Argolide, Paris, 1966, p. 477 and Agora VIII, p. 13. | |
Notes: | Broken, to be mended. | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.088 | |
Chronology: | LG IB-IIA | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 247, p. 61, pl. 21. |