Agora Object: P 23694
Inventory Number:   P 23694
Section Number:   Σ 2846
Title:   Alabastron
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Intact except for chips from lip. Flattened bottom, vertical sides, shoulder rising slightly to low neck; narrow projecting rim. Three handles near edge of shoulder.
Buff clay, decoration in brown glaze. Neck and rim glazed, glaze reaching to top of shoulder; glaze band at angle of shoulder and wall. Handles glazed. Zigzag lines at an angle on shoulder connect upper and lower glaze bands. On vertical wall, running spirals above a band of glaze; on bottom, concentric circles.
Context:   Mycenaean Chamber Tomb opposite Stoa of Attalos Pier 15, in modern drainage ditch, by skeleton 2.
Notebook Page:   5231
Negatives:   Leica, LXIV-37
Dimensions:   H. 0.042; Diam. 0.068
Date:   7 January 1954
Section:   Σ
Deposit:   P 9:4
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Agora XIII, no. XXI:9.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 237, p. 216
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 293, p. 272
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 358
Image: 2012.54.0037 (LXIV-37)
Deposit: P 9:4
Card: P 23694
Card: P 23694