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| Inventory Number: | SS 1843 | |
| Section Number: | Ι 547 | |
| Title: | Stamped Amphora Handle: Chian | |
| Category: | SS Misc. | |
| Description: | The whole preserved of a rather small handle with short, arched upper part. Sandy micaceous clay with buff surface and grayish core; on the inside of the upper attachment a sticky deposit, black underneath, yellowish powder on top. A small roughly made circular impression is set on the lower attachment. It is dim and partly incomplete, but by comparison with SS 1840, etc. a sitting sphinx can be made out. | |
| Notes: | Brookhaven test (1958), no. 25. | |
| Context: | Well; uniform Greek fill. | |
| Writing: | sphinx (in O) | |
| Negatives: | Leica | |
| Dimensions: | H. (handle) ca. 0.20; Th. (at curve) 0.023; W. (at curve) 0.036 | |
| Date: | 4 April 1933 | |
| Section: | Ι | |
| Grid: | Ι:21/Ε | |
| Elevation: | -15--15m. | |
| Masl: | -15m. | |
| Deposit: | R 13:4 | |
| Bibliography: | Lawall (1995), pp. 339, 342. | |
| References: | Deposit: R 13:4 Card: SS 1843 |
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