Agora Object: P 901
Inventory Number:   P 901
Section Number:   ΣΤ 755
Title:   Mortar
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many fragments; a bit of the bowl and the projection of the spout missing. High base, flat on the bottom, with a broad circular groove; downturned rim, moulded on top; spout; ornamental lugs; each lug decorated with three large thumb prints and impressed circles; impressed circles also on either side of the spout.
Coarse pinkish clay with bits, buff at surface.
"Small fragments of crushed brick in the bottom surface to fit it for crushing" D.B.
Context:   Cistern; found with late 4th. c. B.C. pottery.
Negatives:   Leica, 96-2-11
PD Number:   PD 1091-105
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.382, (inside) 0.325, (foot) 0.227; H. 0.09; W. (at handles) 0.425
Date:   2 March 1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Grid:   ΣΤ:9/Β
Elevation:   -3.10m.
Masl:   -3.1m.
Deposit:   F 16:1
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 79 (2010), p. 596, n. 120.
    Agora XII, p. 223, n. 8.
    Agora XXXIII, no. 182, fig. 30, pl. 24.
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Agora XXXIII
Publication: Hesperia 79 (2010)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 27, p. 400
Drawing: PD 1091-105 (DA 7027)
Image: 2012.81.1870 (96-2-11)
Deposit: F 16:1
Card: P 901