Agora Object: P 35981
Inventory Number:   P 35981
Section Number:   ΒΖ 1700
Excavation Number:   handler:2009:f:76
Title:   Alabastron
Category:   Pottery
Description:   One complete handle, other two missing, body intact, rim chipped. Glaze cracked where thick.
Rounded bottom. Straight, slightly inclined wall, curved shoulder, flaring rim. Horizontal handle(s) on shoulder, round in section.
Matte glaze decoration fired dark orange to brown: three concentric circles on underside, three stripes on body, one on shoulder, one on each handle. Neck, including rim, painted solid on interior and exterior.
Pale orange clay.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Gray fill west of cistern.
Notebook Page:   9181
PD Number:   DA 13403
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.101, (rim) 0.067; H. 0.071
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   28 July 2009
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/12-1/18
Elevation:   51.071m.
Masl:   51.071m.
Lot:   Lot ΒΖ 1869
Basket:   handler:2009:b:67
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 89 (2020), no. 42, pp. 619-620, fig. 25.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020)
Report: 2009 Excavations
Images (5)
Card: P 35981