Agora Object: P 5423
Inventory Number:   P 5423
Section Number:   Β' 705
Title:   Amphora
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Αμφορέας διακοσμημένος με ζώνη πτηνών 750 - 725 π.Χ.
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Intact. Similar in shape to P 5422 (Β' 704) but somewhat larger and a little plumper. No lid.
Body, from bottom to point of greatest circumference, covered with glazed bands, one wide and three narrow, alternating. At base of shoulder, band of long-necked, long-legged birds with hatched bodies, left. Between each bird, two dots. Below base of neck, on each side, three panels separated by vertical lines: outer panels filled with checkerboard; central panels with horizontal reserved zigzag, the triangles above and below cross-hatched. Neck panels front and back filled with hatched complicated maeanders; above, zone of birds left, two dots between each, above upper handle attachments. On outer face of lip, row of dots. Horizontal bands on handles.
Buff clay with thick buff slip; thick black glaze, badly peeled.
ADDENDA P 5422: Long ovoid body on ring foot, high concave neck flaring into rounded lip; two vertical strap handles, shoulder to middle of neck.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Γεωμετρικός αμφορέας. Στο σώμα φέρει επάλληλες διακοσμητικές γραμμές και μία ταινία με παράσταση πτηνών, μεταξύ των οποίων υπάρχουν διακοσμητικές στιγμές. Στον ώμο διακρίνονται μετόπες με κόσμημα πεδίου σκακιού, τεθλασμένων γραμμών και τριγώνων, με σύστημα διασταυρωμένων γραμμώσεων στο εσωτερικό τους.
Notes:   Grave 20. Used to be F 12:2 (SD)
Negatives:   Leica, 5-171, 5-291, I-38, 82-125, color slide
PD Number:   Ptg. 270
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.222; H. 0.373
Date:   13 April 1935
Section:   Β'
Deposit:   G 12:24
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Papadopoulos (2007b), p. 118, fig. 115A.
    AgoraPicBk 22 (1985), fig. 46.
    JdI 74 (1959), p. 99 (noted), p. 103.
    Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. XI 1, p. 47, fig. 32.
    ILN (13 October 1939), p. 64B, fig. 5.
    Agora VIII, no. 8.
    Agora XXXI, pp. 134, 135.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 45, p. 31
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 130, p. 116
Drawing: DA 10691
Images (42)
Deposit: G 12:24
Notebook: Β'-6
Notebook Page: Β'-6-48 (pp. 921-922)
Card: P 5423
Card: P 5423