Agora Object: Agora XII, no. 1527 Dimensions: | | H. 0.305; diam. 0.285. | Chronology: | | Context ca. 510-480 B.C. | Deposit: | | G 6:3-U | Bibliography: | | Hesperia, XV, 1946, pl. 67, 318 and p. 330. | Published Number: | | AV 12.1527 | References: | | Object: P 2757
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Ovoid body on flaring ring foot; short wide neck with flat projecting rim. Heavy rolled handles set upright on the lower shoulder. Clay brownish, with dilute surfacing; glaze rather thin. The neck and handles glazed; on the body a broad band of glaze between two narrow; on the shoulder, groups of curved lines running up and down. Inside unglazed. Probably Eretrian.
On another, fragmentary, from the same deposit, there is a wavy line in the handle-zone: P 16769 Hesperia, ibid., p. 330. A sample taken from this piece and one from 1529 proved when studied in thin section to present the same mineralogi- cal characteristics and are distinctively non-Attic.
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