Agora Object: P 5864
Inventory Number:   P 5864
Section Number:   ΠΘ 117
Title:   Lekythos
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Neck and lip broken and mended; about half the lip missing. The shape as P 5863 (ΠΘ 116) but somewhat more slender. Similar decoration: the foot and the lower body glazed, with three reserved lines below the point of greatest circumference. The lip glazed on the top and on the underside. Shoulder, neck and handle reserved. On the shoulder, above three glazed bands, three groups of concentric semi-circles, compass-drawn, separated by two vertical zigzag bands and the handle. Four bands about the base of the neck. Horizontal bands on the handle.
Glaze almost all peeled off.
ADDENDA P 5863: Round body, flaring ring foot, narrow neck, flaring circular lip; handle from below lip to shoulder.
Context:   Pocket S.W. of cistern A, just above grave, w/P 5863.
Negatives:   Leica, 95-64-29, 5-197, LVII-14, 84-354
PD Number:   PD 2774-140
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.095; H. 0.15
Date:   28 May 1935
Section:   ΠΘ
Grid:   ΠΘ:46/ΜΔ
Elevation:   Ca. -25.00m.
Masl:   -25m.
Deposit:   C 11:4
Period:   Protogeometric
Bibliography:   Desborough (1952), pp. 72, 74.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 24, fig. 22.
    AJA 39 (1935), no. 1, p. 44.
    Agora XXXVI, no. T44-4, p. 319, figs. 2.221-2.222.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 5 (1936)
Images (5)
Deposit: C 11:4
Card: P 5864
Card: P 5864