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[Agora Deposit] C 11:2: Pit tomb, inhumation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 20 (E.L. Smithson: Grave X: PG). Bones discarded. Pit tomb, inhumation (on bier or in coffin?), perhaps of a child. Little ash and carbon in the filling, but the grave offerings were unburned. JP ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 368 "Six vases were secured from an adult's grave ... crosshatching and checkerboard pattern" (JP)

[Agora Object] P 1688: Skyphos Fragment: Corinthian

Checkerboard pattern between fine lines. Applied purple. Paint peeled. Protocorinthian. Geometric area outside house, disturbed fill. Leica, 3-23 ... Ca. 650 B.C ... Checkerboard pattern between fine lines.

[Agora Object] P 1693: Pyxis Lid Fragment: Corinthian

Decorated with rays in the center, a zone of checkerboard pattern and part of a hound below. Red paint. Protocorinthian. Lot ΣΤ ?. Geometric area outside house, disturbed fill. Leica, 3-13 ... 1932 ... Decorated with rays in the center, a zone of checkerboard pattern and part of a hound below.

[Agora Object] P 7453: Lid Fragment: Corinthian

Small bit only. Flange below, set well back from edge. From center, rays, bands, checkerboard pattern, and bands at edge. Red glaze, somewhat peeled. Protocorinthian. Protoattic pit and well. Leica, ... 17 March-1 April 1936 ... From center, rays, bands, checkerboard pattern, and bands at edge.

[Agora Object] P 1625: Pyxis Fragment

Fragment from base. Decorated with reserved lines outside and checkerboard pattern underneath. Glazed inside. From selected pottery from top of floor and platforms at eastern end of apsidal house. Leica, ... 16 April 1932 ... Decorated with reserved lines outside and checkerboard pattern underneath.

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[Agora Object] P 55: Bowl Fragment

Moulded rim with two grooves beneath the edge; below, part of a panel of diminishing squares and a checkerboard pattern in black and white. Dark buff clay; unglazed inside. Hellenistic. 418 Leica, 89-21-21 ... 15 July 1931 ... Moulded rim with two grooves beneath the edge; below, part of a panel of diminishing squares and a checkerboard pattern in black and white.

[Agora Object] P 6005: Amphora: West Slope

Moulded ring foot; flaring lip; twisted handles. On shoulder front and back, between incised lines, incised cross-hatching and checkerboard pattern. On neck front and back, incised palmettes. Traces of ... 9-15 May 1935 ... On shoulder front and back, between incised lines, incised cross-hatching and checkerboard pattern. On neck front and back, incised palmettes. Traces of white in palmettes and checkerboard. Restored in plaster.

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[Agora Object] P 6704: Two-Handled Cup

Bottom and one handle missing. Restored in plaster. Between handles, three panels separated by vertical bands. In central panels, checkerboard pattern below tooth pattern; to each side, cross hatching ... 3-6 February 1936 ... In central panels, checkerboard pattern below tooth pattern; to each side, cross hatching.

[Agora Object] P 3642: Vessel Fragment: West Slope and Ribbed

Part of the rim and upper body preserved. None of the lip preserved. Body has vertical grooves made with a pointed implement. Rim is divided from body and lip by lines where the glaze has been scratched ... 27 April 1934 ... Decorated, probably, with diminishing squares and checkerboard pattern, incised. Traces of white paint in the laternate squares of the checkerboard. Pinkish buff clay; black glaze.

[Agora Object] P 10665: Pyxis or Stamnos Fragment

From a very large pyxis or stamnos, with broad flanged inner rim. Zigzag around top of body; below, metopes filled with eight-pointed lozenges with checkerboard pattern and crosshatching. Between the metopes, ... 23-29 April 1937 ... Zigzag around top of body; below, metopes filled with eight-pointed lozenges with checkerboard pattern and crosshatching.

[Agora Object] P 1689: Skyphos Fragments: Corinthian

Three fragments from body. Zone of hounds; checkerboard pattern above hounds; rays below. Red paint. This rather unusual type is earlier than the smaller and more careless similar skyphoi from Italy ... 1932 ... Zone of hounds; checkerboard pattern above hounds; rays below.

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[Agora Object] MC 132: Loom Weight Fragment

About half of the lower part of the weight preserved. Conical. On side, bands of zigzag separated by double and triple lines. On bottom, checkerboard pattern filled with crossed lines and dot rosettes ... 15 February 1935 ... On bottom, checkerboard pattern filled with crossed lines and dot rosettes.

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[Agora Object] P 6009: Kantharos: West Slope

None of foot and neither handle preserved. On body front and back, between incised lines filled with red above and below, cross-hatching in thinned clay paint, interrupted at center by a panel of checkerboard ... 9-15 May 1935 ... On body front and back, between incised lines filled with red above and below, cross-hatching in thinned clay paint, interrupted at center by a panel of checkerboard pattern in thinned clay paint.

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[Agora Object] P 3171: Goblet

Most of one handle, and considerable portions of the body missing. On either side, four vertical panels with, alternately, checkerboard pattern and lines crossing diagonally. Short black stripes on rising ... 5 March 1934 ... On either side, four vertical panels with, alternately, checkerboard pattern and lines crossing diagonally.

[Agora Object] P 2280: Plate Fragment: Stamped

A segment of the bottom and a bit of the wall or a Late Roman B plate; no rim. Very low foot ring, within which the bottom rises slightly; the side curves very gently up. Around the center a band of rectangles ... 9 June 1933 ... Around the center a band of rectangles stamped with a checkerboard pattern. Inside, a band of curved motifs, hatched.

[Agora Object] P 5918: Kantharos Fragment with Graffito: West Slope

Fragment from the rim of a squat kantharos. Below the rim, two scraped grooves; between these, ivy leaves in added clay. On the shoulder, remains of pattern of checkerboard and concentric squares, in added ... 13 June 1935 ... On the shoulder, remains of pattern of checkerboard and concentric squares, in added clay, with white for the one preserved square of the checkerboard.

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[Agora Object] P 25451: Amphora Fragments

Wall fragments: a) Horizontal decoration on top of fragment, vertical below: maeander, ladder pattern; M pattern, checkerboard. b) Vertical decoration on top; horizontal below. Brown to red glaze. Other ... 1939 ... Wall fragments: a) Horizontal decoration on top of fragment, vertical below: maeander, ladder pattern; M pattern, checkerboard. b) Vertical decoration on top; horizontal below.

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[Agora Object] P 21587: Red Figure Vessel Fragment

Shoulder fragment; relief line and a little of the reserved area of the band above the picture. Right half of head and shoulder of a woman in three-quarter view; diadem with maeander pattern, thin chiton ... 6 July 1951 ... Right half of head and shoulder of a woman in three-quarter view; diadem with maeander pattern, thin chiton held with cords at shoulder; at right, face of another woman to left, diadem with checkerboard pattern.

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[Agora Object] P 6286: Amphora: West Slope

Fragmentary. Restored in plaster. Ring foot, squattish body, concave high neck flaring at the lip. Twisted vertical handles with moulded masks at their bases. Incised ring above foot. On shoulder between ... 22 May-6 June 1935 ... On shoulder between incised grooves, diminishing rectangles and checkerboard pattern in terracotta paint and white; on neck, front and back, necklaces with pendents in terracotta paint and white.

[Agora Object] P 1663: Krater Fragments

Two fragments. Decorated with checkerboard and vertical bands of solid diamonds and lattice pattern. Glazed inside. Ripe Dipylon style. Geometric area outside house; from disturbed area. Leica, 3-17 PD ... 1 April 1932 ... Decorated with checkerboard and vertical bands of solid diamonds and lattice pattern.