Inventory Number: | P 38202 | |
Section Number: | ΒΖ 2149 | |
Excavation Number: | martens:2017:f:46 | |
Title: | Piriform Rhyton | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Complete; cracked along body; minor chipping at the rim and body; handle mended from three fragments. Piriform shape; wide rim, slightly flaring; single vertical strap handle on shoulder; slender tapering funnel at bottom. Round piercing (ca. 0.004 m.) through bottom, slightly off-centered. Painted solid on interior and exterior of rim, and on outside face and edges of handle. Below rim, two parallel horizontal lines of dots. On shoulder, broad band of curve-stemmed spirals, filled with stripes and chevrons. To right of handle, single papyrus, striped. Two groups of three horizontal bands on lower body. Horizontal bands on funnel bottom. Reddish to dark brown paint. Pinkish-yellow fabric. Mycenaean LHIIIA1. Cf. Agora XIII, pp. 215-216, no. XXI-6 (P 23696) (FS 201), dated as LHIIIA2. But for decoration as LHIIIA1, see P. Mountjoy, Guide to Identification (1986), p. 52, nos. 2 (FM 11, papyrus), 10 (FM 49, spiral). AS 2229, soil sample from inside piriform rhyton. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Level 3 of southwest undercut of Mycenaean Chamber Tomb J 1:10. | |
Notebook Page: | 11612 | |
PD Number: | DA 13414 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.154; Diam. (rim) 0.067; Diam. (body) 0.102 | |
Material: | Ceramic | |
Chronology: | Mycenaean LHIIIA1 | |
Date: | 26 July 2017 | |
Section: | ΒΖ | |
Grid: | J/18-1/12 | |
Elevation: | 51.235m. | |
Masl: | 51.235m. | |
Deposit: | J 1:10 | |
Lot: | Lot ΒΖ 2272 | |
Basket: | martens:2017:b:29 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 89 (2020), no. 6, pp. 597, 598, 599, 601-602, 603, figs. 5, 9. | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020) Report: 2017 Excavations Drawing: DA 13414 Images (20) Deposit: J 1:10 Card: P 38202 |