Agora Object: P 29981
Inventory Number:   P 29981
Section Number:   ΒΓ' 147
Title:   Amphora Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many fragments. Only upper part preserved. Most of neck missing. Broad sloping shoulder, small neck. Handles right on shoulder now missing. Decorated by haphazard banding with a thin brown wash.
Yellow clay.
Cf. Similar amphorae found on North slope in pre-Persian context: ΑΡ 1048, ΑΡ 1174, ΑΡ 2420.
Context:   Found upside down forming part of a receptacle for potters' clay. Other fragments in crushed bedrock floor, layer 3.
Notebook Page:   943
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.41; Diam. 0.445
Date:   24 July 1972
Section:   ΒΓ'
Grid:   H/17-4/18
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Monaco (2000), p. 34.
    Hesperia Suppl. 25 (1992), p. 3, n. 5.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:ΑΡ 1048
    Agora:Object:ΑΡ 1174
    Agora:Object:AΡ 2420
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 25 (1992)
Image: 2009.01.0083
Card: P 29981
Card: P 29981