Agora Object: P 734
Inventory Number:   P 734
Section Number:   ΣΤ 592 BIS
Title:   Skyphos Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from four fragments. Flaring base only preserved; projecting moulding around top of fragment.
Black glazed save for reserved border with three thin glazed stripes; underside unglazed.
Attic clay.
Probably from a deep Protogeometric bowl; no other fragments of this were found in or near the grave. Presumably this base was reused as a cup of lid. Examples of such reused fragments are not infrequent in Geometric graves (ArchEph (1898), p. 107; ArchEph (1911), p. 248).
Notes:   Object numbered #5.
Context:   Child's grave.
Negatives:   Leica, 2-214, 82-392
PD Number:   PD 2774-59
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.12; H. 0.058
Date:   6 May 1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Grid:   ΣΤ:40/ΙΖ
Deposit:   H 17:2
    H 17:4
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 167, noted under 46.
    JdI 74 (1959), p. 104 (noted).
    Desborough (1952), pp. 93, 95.
    Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 553, no. 5, fig. 11.
    ILN (25 June 1932).
    Agora XXXVI, no. T14-5, p. 122, figs. 2.68-2.69.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Publication: Hesperia 30 (1961)
Drawing: DA 9992
Images (4)
Deposit: H 17:2
Deposit: H 17:4
Card: P 734