Agora Object: P 21877
Inventory Number:   P 21877
Section Number:   Σ 2624
Title:   Black Glaze Kantharos
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Κάνθαρος 450 π.Χ.
Category:   Pottery
Description:   More than half complete; missing fragments of body, rim and handles. Restored in plaster. Foot in two degrees, the lower disc-like, the upper spreading; the angle at which they meet is an echo of that in the walls above; flat resting surface; inner face of foot slopes up steeply to meet underside of floor, which is convex. The body consists of a short spreading lower wall and a slightly concave upper wall that join to form a sharp keel from which the handles spring. The outer edge of the rim is slightly rounded. Strap handles, rising in a loop above the rim. There is a cross-piece between rim and handle, and a finger rest on the outside of each handle near its lower attachment.
Thin fabric. Black glaze inside and out except as follows: the lower degree of the foot is reserved as well as the resting surface; inner face of foot glazed but underside of floor reserved and bears two concentric glazed bands. The glaze fired brownish-black to dull red, peeled in places, particular on one handle. .
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Μελαμβαφής κάνθαρος, με υψηλές ταινιόσχημες λαβές. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το σώμα, το χείλος και τις λαβές του αγγείου. Αποκατεστημένος με γύψο.
Context:   Well, boxes 15, 18-20, 24.
Negatives:   Leica, 80-552, LII-93, color slide
PD Number:   PD 1153-5d
Dimensions:   H. (to rim) 0.10, (w/handles) ca. 0.135; Diam. (rim) 0.13, (base) 0.08
Date:   May-June 1951
Section:   Σ
Grid:   Σ:45/Θ
Elevation:   -10--10m.
Masl:   -10m.
Deposit:   N 7:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 167.
    AMIran 26 (1993), p. 131, n. 141.
    AgoraPicBk 1 (1958), fig. 9.
    Archaeology 10 (1957), p. 197.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), pl. 29, no. 38.
    Agora XII, no. 628, fig. 7, pl. 27.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 42, p. 415
Drawing: PD 1153-5d (DA 7844)
Images (11)
Object: Agora XII, no. 628
Deposit: N 7:3
Card: P 21877
Card: P 21877