Agora Object: P 4229
Inventory Number:   P 4229
Section Number:   Γ 895
Title:   Plate Fragment with Relief Decoration
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Probably from a deep plate with a horizontal rim, the outer edge polygonal; a bit of the edge, finished in a straight line, remains. The rim is divided into two parts by a raised ring and a row of small dots. Inside the ring, a tree on which perch two birds(?), and, right, part of a building. Outside the ring, part of a boukranion(?) filling apparently the triangular space between ring and edge.
Fine pink clay; good, highly lustrous red glaze.
Context:   Disturbed Hellenistic fill under limepit.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.L. 0.059; P.W. 0.030
Date:   12 March 1934
Section:   Γ
Grid:   Γ:91-95/Ι-ΙΣΤ
Elevation:   -3.30m.
Masl:   -3.3m.
Lot:   Lot Γ 119
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Agora XXXII, no. 965, pl. 50.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXII
Card: P 4229