Inventory Number: | P 15020 | |
Section Number: | ΓΓ 260 | |
Title: | Black Figure Pyxis Lid Fragments | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Three fragments preserve nearly half the circumference of the lid, with the central knob, chipped. Slightly domed lid with broad flat rim; vertical flange, set well in, beneath. High knob with flat projecting top; a broad collar, concave in profile, at junction of knob and lid. Decoration in black to brown glaze, and purple; around outer edge, black; then a zone of elongated blobs, alternately black and purple, between two narrow purple lines; then a black band, a narrow purple, and around base of handle, a zone of waterbirds, right, in glaze, with pairs of purple dots in the field. Two brown lines around collar; stem of knob glazed; edge of its top purple. On the top, narrow glaze bands and a zone of dots. Underside unglazed. No incision. | |
Context: | Small early house walls. Clearing among stones and over firm greenish strosis between two cesspools at N.E. corner of Section VII. | |
Notebook Page: | 921 | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.039; Diam. 0.085 | |
Date: | 4 May 1939 | |
Section: | ΓΓ | |
Deposit: | E 19:7 | |
Lot: | Lot ΓΓ 469 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Agora XXIII, no. 1294. | |
References: | Publication: Agora XXIII Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 273, p. 257 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 362, p. 346 Deposit: E 19:7 Card: P 15020 Card: P 15020 |