Agora Object: P 4073
Inventory Number:   P 4073
Section Number:   ΣΤ 820
Title:   Pithos Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Well or cistern curb? Fragment from mouth. The lip is finished with an ovolo, below which is a cavetto.
Gritty yellow clay. Unglazed, save for the cavetto which is painted red.
This and the preceding fragment (P 4072) must come from large storage jars like that which yielded Group D.
ADDENDA From the bottom of the curb of which P 4072 is the top? Profile, see P 4072. Fragment added from Tin 104, November 1948. P.H. 0.155; Est. Diam. (inner) 0.54, (outer, at middle of ovolo) 0.63.
Context:   Cistern. Draw shaft.
Negatives:   Leica, 4-320
PD Number:   PD 295, PD 487
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.127
Date:   1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Grid:   ΣΤ:45/Β
Deposit:   H 16:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 27 (1958), p. 172, n. 31.
    Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 121, fig. 5.
    Hesperia 3 (1934), no. B 43.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 3 (1934)
Publication: Hesperia 18 (1949)
Publication: Hesperia 27 (1958)
Drawing: PD 295 (DA 5951)
Drawing: PD 487 (DA 3435)
Image: 2000.06.0090 (Leica A 1418)
Image: 2012.23.0088 (4-320)
Deposit: H 16:3
Card: P 4073