Agora Object: P 4960
Inventory Number:   P 4960
Section Number:   Β 1290
Title:   Pithos
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Large flat-bottomed handleless pithos, with swelling rounded body, concave neck and plain lip.
Handmade of coarse reddish brown clay with small red bits; the outside carefully polished, the inside left rough. Unglazed.
Used for burial.
Context:   Grave 13. The pithos contained the bones of two infants, twelve small pots and a bronze ring.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-266, 85-180, 85-669
PD Number:   PD 1235-3
Dimensions:   Est. Diam. 0.60, (mouth) 0.338; H. ca. 0.885
Date:   13 March 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:32-33/Θ
Deposit:   G 12:14
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. IX 1, p. 37, fig. 23.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 130, p. 116
Drawing: PD 1235-3 (DA 9031)
Drawing: PD 1235-3 (DA 9032)
Drawing: PD 1235-3 (DA 6542)
Image: 2012.24.0026 (5-266)
Image: 2012.57.1323 (85-669)
Image: 2012.57.0821 (85-180)
Deposit: G 12:14
Notebook: Β-8
Notebook Page: Β-8-65 (pp. 1508-1509)
Card: P 4960