| Inventory Number: | P 30972 | |
| Section Number: | Ν 989 | |
| Title: | Amphora Fragments with Graffito | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Description: | a) Fragment of neck, mouth and handle of a large amphora. Neck narrows to rolled, nearly horizontal lip; wide handles, nearly ovoid in section, rise steeply over mouth. b) Non-joining fragment of neck and shoulder. Shoulder narrowly grooved and occasionally smeared while still wet. Grafitto on shoulder: <graphic> Unglazed. Clay a soft buff (7.51/R 7/3) with a few small dark and large white inclusions. Surface pitted, apparently where organic material (e.g. straw) was intermixed with the clay. | |
| Notes: | Previously North Basement-Jar Fragments, Block XII. | |
| Context: | Pit. | |
| Notebook Page: | 274 | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. a) 0.162, b) 0.128; Diam. (mouth) 0.068 | |
| Date: | 11 March 1935 | |
| Section: | Ν | |
| Grid: | Ν:24/ΜΑ | |
| Deposit: | L 10:1 | |
| Lot: | Lot Ν 5 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Bibliography: | Gunsenin (1990), p. 307. | |
| References: | Deposit: L 10:1 Lot: Ν 5 Notebook Page: Ν-11-24 (pp. 2025-2026) Card: P 30972 Card: P 30972 |