Object: P 20164
Inventory Number:   P 20164
Section Number:   ΣΑ 435
Title:   Amphora Fragment with Graffito
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces; upper half only preserved. Body ribbed; short roughly made neck; thick short handles from neck. Late Roman type, but early Byzantine date.
Incised on shoulder in large letters: <graphic>
Notes:   Previously North Basement-Jar Fragments, Block XII (10th.-12th. c. A.D.).
Context:   Pier 18 east. Early Byz. fill mixed with Stoa fill, level of ca. 7th. foundation course.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.175; Diam. (shoulder) 0.245
Date:   June 1949
Section:   ΣΑ
Period:   Byzantine
Bibliography:   Gunsenin (1990), p. 293, pl. LXXIX/2a-b.
References:   Card: P 20164
Card: P 20164