Agora Object: P 33160
Inventory Number:   P 33160
Section Number:   ΒΕ 1800
Conservation Number:   2965
Title:   Alabastron
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many fragments; complete except for chips from rim and body. Paint preserved, but flaking. High, baggy type, slightly sagging. Low neck, thin spreading rim. Three horizontal handles, round in section, on upper body. Upper body decorated with rock pattern, with row of single dots below neck; three concentric bands around lower body. Neck, handles and rim monochrome painted. Slightly concave base with central cross design.
Fine light orange-buff fabric; red to orange glaze and creamy buff slip.
For shape cf. Mountjoy (1993), fig. 64, no. 2.
Context:   Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. Basket 94.
Handling:   cushioning under the base
Notebook Page:   8855
PD Number:   PD 2784-7
Dimensions:   Diam. (rim) 0.076, (body) 0.131; H. 0.068
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   23 July 1998
Section:   ΒΕ
Grid:   J/19,K/1-2/14,16
Elevation:   50.926-50.926m.
Masl:   50.926m.
Deposit:   J-K 2:2
Lot:   Lot ΒΕ 2403
Basket:   94
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Hesperia 72 (2003), p. 257, no. 14, fig. 18.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Mountjoy (1993) fig. 64, no. 2.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 72 (2003)
Report: 1998 Excavations
Drawing: PD 2784-7 (DA 5304)
Images (9)
Deposit: J-K 2:2
Card: P 33160