Agora Object: P 32631
Inventory Number:   P 32631
Section Number:   ΒΕ 1472
Conservation Number:   1737
Title:   Black Glaze Cup Skyphos with Graffito
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Bowl in one piece, but chipped at rim. One handle joined from three fragments, the other missing. Spreading moulded ring foot with lip and broad groove, rounded resting surface. Inset lip, deeper and sharply undercut on the inside. Handle rising above rim. Reserved: underside, with central dot and two rings, one thin, one thick, close to the center, outer face and resting surface of foot, handle panels, and inside of handle. Underside of base inscribed: ΞENON.
Fine-grained, orange-red fabric. Good black glaze.
Cf. Agora XII, no. 578, ca 480 BC.
For the shape, called Castulo Cup, see B. Shefton, I Vasi attici ed altre ceramiche coeve in Sicilia, I (Catania 1995), pp. 85-98.
Context:   "Pit".
Notebook Page:   7617
Negatives:   97-60-17, 97-60-18, 97-60-19, 96-64-5(6), 96-64-14, 96-64-15, 96-64-16, 96-64-17, 96-64-18
Dimensions:   Diam. (rim) 0.137, (foot) 0.083; H. 0.056, (letters) 0.006
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   22 July 1996
Section:   ΒΕ
Grid:   J/20,K/1-2/7,8
Elevation:   52.317-50.957m.
Masl:   50.957-52.317m.
Deposit:   J-K 2:1
Lot:   Lot ΒΕ 2129
    Lot ΒΕ 2130
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 68 (1999), p. 274, no. 48, figs. 22, 23.
Published Type:   Agora XII, no. 578.
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia 68 (1999)
Report: 1996 Excavations
Images (5)
Deposit: J-K 2:1
Card: P 32631