Agora Object: P 32725
Inventory Number:   P 32725
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1461
Conservation Number:   1968
Title:   Amphora Fragments
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many fragments, preserving most of rim, neck and small portion of upper shoulder (including both handles) of Sos amphora. One handle non-joining.
Relatively short vertical neck, made separately from body, flaring to thick, rounded rim. Prominent ridge set below rim. Vertical handles, round in section, attached from upper shoulder to mid-neck. Paint rather irregularly applied, streaky, but well adhering; fired black where thickest, thinning to light red/ reddish-brown where more dilute. Preserved shoulder and outer faces of handles painted solid. Neck reserved and decorated with: <graphic>. Central concentric "O"s are compass-drawn. Upper neck above ridge, rim exterior and top painted solid. Rim and neck on interior reserved.
Clay fired close to reddish-yellow 5YR 7/ 6; reserved surfaces slightly lighter.
Cf. Agora VIII, pp. 32-34, pls. 2, 42, nos. 23-28.
Notes:   Lot III.
Context:   Well. Basket 76.
Notebook Page:   3277
Negatives:   98-23-31(32), 98-23-33(34), 96-64-19, 96-64-20, 96-64-21, 96-64-22
Dimensions:   Diam. a) (rim) 0.183; Max. Dim. b) 0.157; P.H. a) 0.178
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   10-24 July 1996
Section:   ΜΣ
Elevation:   58.47-58.47m.
Masl:   58.47m.
Deposit:   I 13:4
Lot:   Lot ΜΣ 502
    Lot ΜΣ 501
    Lot ΜΣ 503
Basket:   76
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 68 (1999), p. 261, no. 3, fig. 8.
Published Type:   Agora VIII, pp. 32-34, pls. 2, 42, nos. 23-28.
References:   Publication: Agora VIII
Publication: Hesperia 68 (1999)
Report: 1996 Excavations
Image: 2012.84.0670 (98-23-31)
Image: 2012.84.0672 (98-23-33)
Image: 2012.82.1629 (96-64-20)
Deposit: I 13:4
Card: P 32725