Agora Object: Agora XII, no. 1520
Chronology:   Found used as a burial urn; burial of ca. 525-500 B.C.
Deposit:   M 18:6
Published Number:   AV 12.1520
References:   Object: P 8922
Foot missing.

Neck-pithos with deep ovoid body and heavy collar rim. Decoration of raised ridges: a pair at junction of neck and shoulder, and two pairs on wall. Black glaze, thin and uneven, outside except on rim, and inside around upper part of neck only.

The missing bottom should be restored with a high flaring ring foot like that seen on oil jars such as 1501, Pl. 64; this foot is preserved on a pithos of the same type found in the Trachones cemetery.

Large collar-rimmed pithoi are best known from rep- resentations in vase-painting; see p. 193, note 1. A wall fragment from the moderate-sized ridged pithos, as 1520, was used as an ostrakon against Themistokles (482 B.C.): P 18082 A 18-19:1. A still smaller version (pitharion) is shown above, 34, Pl. 2.

Restored in plaster.