Agora Object: P 27448
Inventory Number:   P 27448
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1132
Title:   Amphora
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Complete except for chips from rim and wall by handle; mended from many fragments. Flat bottom, depressed globular body, vertical strap handles from belly to top of shoulder, neck tall and flaring out slightly, narrow flat out-turned rim. Covered with paint all over outside, except bottom, and inside of neck.
Very streaky poorly applied red-black dull paint. Red-buff clay full of grit and lime pockets.
Probably Furumark, MP type 74, LH II B-III A:2, or variant of type 67, LH II-III C:1.
Context:   Chamber tomb, below Middle Stoa terrace, opposite Pier 20. From above right shoulder of Burial Α.
Notebook Page:   2063
Negatives:   Leica, 84-223, 84-361
Dimensions:   H. 0.14; Diam. 0.125
Date:   3 August 1965
Section:   ΜΣ
Deposit:   N 12:4
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Camp (1986), p. 29.
    Hesperia 35 (1966), p. 72, pls. 22a, 24a.
    Agora XIII, no. XL-1.
    Agora XIV, p. 4, pl. 16b.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Agora XIV
Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966)
Publication Pages (6)
Images (10)
Deposit: N 12:4
Card: P 27448
Card: P 27448