Agora Object: P 21936
Inventory Number:   P 21936
Section Number:   Σ 2683
Title:   Amphora
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Missing fragments of body and neck; restored in plaster. Ring foot, generally convex in profile, but varying to angular. Plain bottom, convex at center, concave near edges. Ovoid body. Straight neck, with a low moulded ridge around its base and a narrow raised band around its top. Flaring rim, oval in plan; its outer profile convex; its upper surface is flat and slopes in sharply. Handles segmental in section, rooted in shoulder and top of neck. Broken and mended in antiquity with lead clamps; in one instance the mending left a gap between two sherds.
Yellow clay, soft and powdery.
Context:   Well, boxes 4, 9, 13. Context ca. 460-440 B.C.
Negatives:   Leica, L-56, LIII-77, 85-541
Dimensions:   H. 0.36; Diam. 0.295, (base) 0.125
Date:   May-June 1951
Section:   Σ
Grid:   Σ:45/Θ
Elevation:   -10--10m.
Masl:   -10m.
Deposit:   N 7:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Archaeology 10 (1957), p. 195.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), pl. 54, no. 106.
    Agora XII, no. 1480, pl. 62.
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia 22 (1953)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 42, p. 415
Image: 2012.57.1194 (85-541)
Object: Agora XII, no. 1480
Deposit: N 7:3
Card: P 21936
Card: P 21936