Agora Object: P 37564
Inventory Number:   P 37564
Section Number:   ΒΖ 1997
Excavation Number:   handler:2015:f:35
Title:   Alabastron
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Squat alabastron mended from nine pieces; nearly complete: large gap in body, part of lip missing.
Broad base, slightly convex; rounded rising upper body. Three slightly canted, glazed handles on shoulder. Low neck with out-turned rim. Decoration: concentric circles on underside, almost entirely gone; band around diameter, almost entirely gone; sacral ivy pattern with corrugated stalks on body, partially preserved; band below neck; neck and rim glazed.
Dark brown glaze. Yellowish buff clay with a smooth, light brown slip.
Cf. Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 207, no. 5 (P 21255), figs. 5-6, pl. 73.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Tomb
Notebook Page:   10907
PD Number:   DA 13410
Dimensions:   H. 0.051; Diam. (body) 0.095, (rim) 0.047
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   13 July 2015
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/13-1/20
Elevation:   50.442m.
Masl:   50.442m.
Deposit:   J 1:13
Basket:   handler:2015:b:35
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 89 (2020), no. 34, p. 616, fig. 21.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020)
Report: 2015 Excavations
Images (10)
Deposit: J 1:13
Card: P 37564