Agora Object: SS 1843
Inventory Number:   SS 1843
Section Number:   Ι 547
Title:   Stamped Amphora Handle: Chian
Category:   SS Misc.
Description:   The whole preserved of a rather small handle with short, arched upper part.
Sandy micaceous clay with buff surface and grayish core; on the inside of the upper
attachment a sticky deposit, black underneath, yellowish powder on top.
A small roughly made circular impression is set on the lower attachment. It is dim and partly incomplete, but by comparison with SS 1840, etc. a sitting sphinx can be made out.
Notes:   Brookhaven test (1958), no. 25.
Context:   Well; uniform Greek fill.
Writing:   sphinx (in O)
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   H. (handle) ca. 0.20; Th. (at curve) 0.023; W. (at curve) 0.036
Date:   4 April 1933
Section:   Ι
Grid:   Ι:21/Ε
Elevation:   -15--15m.
Masl:   -15m.
Deposit:   R 13:4
Bibliography:   Lawall (1995), pp. 339, 342.
References:   Deposit: R 13:4
Card: SS 1843