Agora Object: P 5863
Inventory Number:   P 5863
Section Number:   ΠΘ 116
Title:   Lekythos
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Λήκυθος
Category:   Pottery
Description:   The neck and lip broken and mended; about half the lip missing. Round body, flaring ring foot, narrow neck, flaring circular lip; handle from below lip to shoulder. The foot and the lower body glazed, with three reserved lines below the point of greatest circumference; the lip glazed on top. On the shoulder, above two glazed bands, three groups of concentric semi-circles, compass-drawn, separated from each other by narrow vertical bands: a stripe with a row of dots on either side; another, similar, but with a reserved center; and a vertical zigzag. Three bands about base of neck; horizontal bands on handle. On the shoulder, close to the handle attachment, a small airhole, neatly pierced before firing.
Chocolate brown glaze, somewhat peeled.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Πρωτογεωμετρική λήκυθος με σφαιρικό σώμα και δακτυλιόσχημη βάση. Λείπει περίπου το μισό τμήμα του χείλους. Στο ύψος του ώμου φέρει διακόσμηση από ομόκεντρα ημικύκλια και κοσμήματα ιχθυάκανθας.
Context:   Pocket S.W. of cistern A, just above grave, w/P 5864.
Negatives:   Leica, 95-64-27, 95-64-28, 5-197, LVII-14, 84-354, color slide
PD Number:   Ptg. 66, PD 2774-33
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.105; H. 0.155
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   28 May 1935
Section:   ΠΘ
Grid:   ΠΘ:46/ΜΔ
Elevation:   Ca. -25.00m.
Masl:   -25m.
Deposit:   C 11:4
Period:   Protogeometric
Bibliography:   Papadopoulos (2007b), p. 102, fig 103C.
    Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 161, noted under 25; also pp. 161-162, noted under 26.
    Cook (1960), pl. I, c.
    Desborough (1952), pp. 72, 74, 85.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 24, fig. 22.
    AJA 39 (1935), no. 4, p. 442.
    Agora XXXVI, no. T44-3, p. 319, figs. 2.221-2.222, pl. II.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 5 (1936)
Publication: Hesperia 30 (1961)
Drawing: DA 12647
Images (46)
Deposit: C 11:4
Card: P 5863
Card: P 5863