Inventory Number: | P 30937 | |
Section Number: | ΡΡ 800 | |
Title: | Pyxis with Lid: West Slope | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | a) Mended from many pieces; full height not preserved. Moulded ring foot, grooved resting surface and juncture of moulding not reserved. Broad flange for lid with vertical rim above. Presumably, though not certainly, associated with fragment b). Wall decorated with leaves, berries, and tendrils done in clay and added white. b) Full height not preserved, numerous chips missing. Vertical lower wall with broad convex top overlapping. Top decorated in two zones, set off by mouldings and scraped grooves once filled with miltos. Outer zone decorated with alternating stylized cornucopiae and grape clusters in white and added clay. Inner zone of tendrils and wine leaves with either berries or blossoms, all in added clay. Rim pierced with two holes at one side for suspension, other side missing. Good black glaze. Red Attic glaze. | |
Context: | Cistern, layer I. | |
Notebook Page: | 1989 | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | P.H. a) (body) 0.082, b) (lid) 0.073; Diam. a) (body) 0.135, b) (lid) 0.155 | |
Date: | 12 June 1975 | |
Section: | ΡΡ | |
Deposit: | R 13:9 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | AA 109 (1994), p. 48, figs. 50:f, 51. | |
Hesperia 60 (1991), no. 3, p. 69, pl. 14 | ||
Agora XXIX, no. 1220, fig. 75, pl. 90. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXIX Publication: Hesperia 60 (1991) Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 399, p. 360 Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 585, p. 546 Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1220 Deposit: R 13:9 Card: P 30937 Card: P 30937 |