Inventory Number: | P 249 | |
Section Number: | Δ 99 | |
Title: | Black Figure Neck Amphora Fragment | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Handle fragment; a little of the body preserved at the lower junction of the handle. Upper end broken away after start of curve to neck. Handle composed of a broad band bent outward along the edges so the section is concave-convex. It widens slightly toward the neck. The inside is painted with black glaze thinning to greenish-brown. The outside is decorated with a row of rosettes of which four and part of a fifth are preserved: silhouette in black glaze, on which the drawing is incised and purple applied on most of the petals. Row bordered by narrow bands of thin glaze. Below the lowest, a bit of the body pattern: double horizontal band of purple over row of black dots. Decoration hasty but effective. Clay light red, micaceous. Early Black Figure Amphora Type A. | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | P.L. 0.147; P.W. 0.038 | |
Date: | 20 February 1932 | |
Section: | Δ | |
Grid: | Δ:22/ΙΒ | |
Elevation: | 60.50m. | |
Masl: | 60.5m. | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Agora XXIII, no. 147, pl. 18. | |
References: | Publication: Agora XXIII Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 137, p. 121 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 353, p. 337 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 417 Image: 2010.18.0110 (Leica P 249) Notebook: Δ-1 Notebook Page: Δ-1-68 (pp. 127-128) Card: P 249 Card: P 249 |