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[Agora Object] AP 1106: Mycenaean Sherd

Piece of rim. White clay with dots and octopus design. Sample taken 25/6/1979 by Richard Jones. Oscar Broneer, Nb. No. 4. Well M, 4.10-6m. 149 ... 20 May 1937 ... Piece of rim. White clay with dots and octopus design.

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[Agora Object] P 1736: Vessel Fragment

Fragment from shoulder of large vase. Glazed outside showing part of an octopus in thinned yellow clay. Cf. P 641. Light on Dark style. Geometric area outside house; from surface filling. Leica, 3-16, ... Ca. 650 B.C ... octopus in thinned yellow clay.

[Agora Object] P 25291: Krater Fragment

Flat rim, thickened. Lines of glaze on top of rim. On wall, panels divided by three lines: at left, checkerboard; at right, octopus in black-and-white style. In field, zigzags. Glazed inside, mottled; ... May 1938 ... checkerboard; at right, octopus in

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[Agora Object] P 31023: Black Glaze Cup Fragment with Paint Decoration

Fragment of tondo of cup? Exterior plain; interior glazed black with remains of three tendrils(?) ADDENDA This looks like a phiale. Tendrils may be an octopus. Decoration in added white. MBM. Catalogued ... 24 May-9 June 1954 ... octopus. Decoration in added

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[Agora Object] P 537: Clay Disk

Protoattic sherd used as counter. Nearly flat; roughly polygonal in outline. Part of a naturalistic design in spiral coils: octopus(?) or hydra(?) or floral design(?). Incised where the coils overlap ... 30-31 March 1932 ... octopus(?) or hydra(?) or floral

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[Agora Object] P 641: Amphora Fragment with Paint Decoration

Fragment from neck, mended from two pieces. The neck curves outward toward shoulder and rim; at the lip, a heavy band. An octopus painted in cream over black to red glaze; pattern broken away at left; ... 26 April 1932 ... heavy band. An octopus ... body of the octopus, with ... with part of the octopus

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[Agora Object] P 21591: Kylix

Mended from many pieces; preserved about half of upper part including handle and foot. Slightly out-turned rim, handle nearly round in section; spreading foot, hollow in center below. A hole below rim ... LH III A-B ... with a large octopus on each side; details of the octopus

[Agora Object] P 15382: Vessel Fragment

From the side of a closed pot, near shoulder. Stirrup vase? Part of a large octopus motif, formed by two spirals reserved on a red to brown ground; framed by bands of short horizontal lines. Light grayish ... 5 June 1939 ... octopus motif, formed by two

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[Agora Object] P 23535: Hydria

Mended from many pieces, parts of neck and walls and of one horizontal handle restored in plaster. Small ring foot; globular body; flaring mouth; thick band handle from rim; rolled horizontal handles ... 9 July 1953 ... handles. An octopus motive is ... tentacles of the octopus are

[Agora Object] AP 2936: Sitrrup Jar Fragment: Pictorial

Black - brown on buff. ADDENDA 2018: Single sherd to a stirrup jar. No features are preserved. The exterior decoration consists of parallel chevrons filling the space between outlined monochrome areas ... LH IIIC Middle ... areas (likely an octopus

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[Agora Object] P 13757: Black Figure Hydria

Missing over half of upper body with all of neck and mouth, most of figured panel, vertical and one horizontal handle. Low flaring foot; low rounded shoulder, body sharply drawn in toward foot; small thick ... 19-27 May 1937 ... octopus. A single band of

[Agora Object] AP 2932: Stirrup Jar Fragment: Pictorial

Black - brown on buff. ADDENDA 2018: Single sherd to a stirrup jar. No features are preserved. The exterior decoration consists of concentric arcs filling the space between large monochrome areas. It ... 15-18 May 1937; 5 June 1937; 26, 28, 31 March 1938; 1 April 1938 ... part of an octopus stirrup

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[Agora Object] P 1984: Vessel Fragment

Mended from many pieces; a small part of the neck preserved with about one-quarter of the swelling body; none of the base. Three bands of paint around the bottom, three at the point of greatest circumference ... 15 May 1933 ... body. Degenerate octopus on

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[Agora Object] P 21246: Jug

Jug with Beaked Spout. Fragments of wall and spout missing; mended from many pieces. Broad ovoid body; low raised base. Narrow neck concave in profile, set off from the shoulder by a pronounced ridge ... LH II-III A ... cuttlefish/octopus facing; the eyes ... the cuttlefish/octopus; the

[Agora Object] P 1337: Black Figure Oinochoe

Many fragments join to form largest fragment. In addition, one large non-joining fragment gives most of the base and there are four others, non-joining. Surface badly pitted and worn. The panel is bordered ... August-September 1932 ... (octopus). Red on the helmet,

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[Agora Object] AP 1071: Krater Fragment: Pictorial

Part of neck of large Mycenaean vase. Red bands and three spiral lines (arms an octopus?) on buff. ADDENDA 2018: Single sherd to a medium krater with horizontal, flat rim. The exterior decoration consists ... LH IIIC Middle ... octopus?) on buff. ADDENDA 2018:

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[Agora Object] P 15234: Three-Handled Amphora

Mended from many pieces. Small fragments, chips and flakes missing. Flaring lip, flat on top with Z-pattern near inner edge. Neck glazed, with raised ring setting it off from body. Three vertical loop ... 26 May 1939 ... octopus-like designs with spirals.

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[Agora Object] P 33177: Ewer

Mended from many fragments. Complete except for small gaps. A few small loose fragments in separate bag. Surface decoration preserved but flaking. Narrow neck, cut away and pinched to form trough spout ... 7 July 1998 ... octopus (?) with five