APC Image: AK 1130Pottery from Well V, dating to the sixth century B.C. Upper left: Fragment of brazier of coarse ware, discolored from fire on the inside. One handle is preserved. There were two rows of holes on one side, and presumably a square opening on the opposite side. Upper right: Undecorated cooking pot with two high vertical handles and a flange round the opening where the lid rested. On the side is a narrow false spout, hollow at the top, but the wall of the vase is not perforated. On the side opposite the spout the vase is discolored from fire. The fabric is hard, of good quality, but very thin, of a brick red color. A pot of the same shape was discovered in a well at Corinth, the contents of which are dated in the years 460-420 B.C. Another specimen of much larger dimensions came from a well in the Athenian Agora, containing an ostrakon of Aristeides from the year 482 and pottery dating from the first four decades of the fifth century. The shape seems to have been in use during a long period of time, but the later specimens are as a rule flatter. Bottom left to right: Small black painted pitcher. The mouth and the handle are broken away. Just below the base of the handle is a purple line round the body of the vase. The base is flat and unpainted. On the neck are scratched the letters "XA". The same two letters have been found on vases in the Athenian Agora. Corinthian skyphos. It is covered with a poor, dark brown glaze, which has partly peeled off. Below the handles is a purple line and at the foot a reserved band. The edge of the base ring is glazed and there are glazed circles in the centre, but the rest of the bottom is reserved. The color of the clay, where the glaze has peeled off, is pink, but the reserved parts at the base are light buff. Part of a stemless kylix with offset rim, of rather coarse ware. There is a purple line below the rim both inside and outside. The base and the inside of the handle are unglazed. Oinochoe with squat angular body, long narrow neck, and single handle extending from the shoulder to the lip. Only the base of the handle is preserved, and the mouth is missing. The glaze is mottled red and black, and traces of purple lines are preserved on the body of the vase. The bottom is perfectly flat and unglazed.
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Object Description:   Pottery from Well V, dating to the sixth century B.C. Upper left: Fragment of brazier of coarse ware, discolored from fire on the inside. One handle is preserved. There were two rows of holes on one side, and presumably a square opening on the opposite side. Upper right: Undecorated cooking pot with two high vertical handles and a flange round the opening where the lid rested. On the side is a narrow false spout, hollow at the top, but the wall of the vase is not perforated. On the side opposite the spout the vase is discolored from fire. The fabric is hard, of good quality, but very thin, of a brick red color. A pot of the same shape was discovered in a well at Corinth, the contents of which are dated in the years 460-420 B.C. Another specimen of much larger dimensions came from a well in the Athenian Agora, containing an ostrakon of Aristeides from the year 482 and pottery dating from the first four decades of the fifth century. The shape seems to have been in use during a long period of time, but the later specimens are as a rule flatter. Bottom left to right: Small black painted pitcher. The mouth and the handle are broken away. Just below the base of the handle is a purple line round the body of the vase. The base is flat and unpainted. On the neck are scratched the letters "XA". The same two letters have been found on vases in the Athenian Agora. Corinthian skyphos. It is covered with a poor, dark brown glaze, which has partly peeled off. Below the handles is a purple line and at the foot a reserved band. The edge of the base ring is glazed and there are glazed circles in the centre, but the rest of the bottom is reserved. The color of the clay, where the glaze has peeled off, is pink, but the reserved parts at the base are light buff. Part of a stemless kylix with offset rim, of rather coarse ware. There is a purple line below the rim both inside and outside. The base and the inside of the handle are unglazed. Oinochoe with squat angular body, long narrow neck, and single handle extending from the shoulder to the lip. Only the base of the handle is preserved, and the mouth is missing. The glaze is mottled red and black, and traces of purple lines are preserved on the body of the vase. The bottom is perfectly flat and unglazed.
Negative Number:   AK 1130
Category:   Pottery
Subcategory:   Vessel
Site:   Acropolis, North Slope
City:   Athens
Region:   Attica
Country:   Greece
Date:   1937
Format:   Interpositive
Dimensions:   23.5 X 17.5
Bibliography:   Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 196, 221, figs. 31,55.
Repository:   ASCSA ARCHIVES
Collection Title:   Archaeological Photographic Collection
Series:   AK
Image Width:   2814
Image Height:   2100