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Object: P 17877
Inventory Number:   P 17877
Section Number:   ΝΝ 2854
Title:   Jug with Relief Decoration
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Intact. Flat bottom and straight side wall; upward sloping shoulder, ribbed; narrow neck with plain slightly flaring lip; ridged vertical handle, base of neck to edge of shoulder. Mould-made in two pieces, vertically. Relief scene on front and back, the scenes separated by Ionic columns. On front, Herakles wrestling with the Keryneian stag; his lion's skin and club hang behind. A tree in front. On the back, Herakles wearing the lion's skin as a cloak knotted around his neck and flaying out behind him, shoots with bow and arrow at the Stymphalian birds. Two have fallen, and a third, pierced by an arrow, drops through the air.
Pinkish clay; the dull red glaze has largely disappeared.
Context:   Well, box 26.
Negatives:   Leica, XXVII-86, XXVII-87, XL-10, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.24; Diam. 0.13
Date:   30 May 1947
Section:   ΝΝ
Grid:   ΝΝ:83/Ι
Elevation:   -7--10.6m.
Masl:   -10.6--7m.
Deposit:   C 20:1.3
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 181.
    Guide (1976), p. 274.
    Guide (1962), p. 184.
    Brommer (1960), pp. 62, 158.
    Brommer (1956), p. 45, no. D 2.
    Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 276, noted.
    Hesperia 17 (1948), pl. LXIV, pp. 183-184.
    Agora XXXII, no. 1632, pl. 78.
References:   Publications (4)
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Deposit: C 20:1
Deposit: C 20:1.3
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-4-88 (pp. 767-768)
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-23-79 (pp. 4544-4545)
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-24-25 (pp. 4640-4641)
Card: P 17877
Card: P 17877