Agora Object: P 1708
Inventory Number:   P 1708
Section Number:   ΣΤ 1027
Title:   Neck Amphora Fragments
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Two fragments from broad handle of large neck amphora.
Decorated with three stripes down the center and wavy bands on either side.
Brownish paint. Apparently from same handle, which must have tapered considerably. Lower part wider than that of the Athens Nessos amphora (W. 0.08; Pfuhl (1923), fig. 89). The broad handle is common on large amphoras, but usually remains the same width.
Subgeometric style.
Context:   Geometric area outside house; from pit E.
Negatives:   Leica, 3-24
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 0.087, b) 0.07; P.W. a) 0.095, b) 0.074
Date:   1 April 1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Deposit:   H 17:4
Lot:   Lot ΣΤ 128
Period:   Protoattic
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 571, no. 131, fig. 29.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Pfuhl (1923), fig. 89.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 128, p. 114
Image: 2012.21.0259 (3-24)
Deposit: H 17:4
Card: P 1708