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Wall and shoulder fragment.
Impressed and incised decoration: garland of ivy leaves with a zone of curved lines above and below; at shoulder curve, a row of large circles. Blister ware; clay gray, red ... Context 4th c. B.C. and earlier ... Similar patterns on other blister ware jugs, e.g. from Corinth, the Potters' Quarter, inv. KP 858; from Isthmia, on several large jugs (p. 208). |
Bottom wholly restored.
Incised wavy lines at level of both handle attachments and down outer face of handle.
Unglazed and handmade.
For ware, Hesperia 30 (1961), pp. 316-317.
For incised decoration ... 7th c. B.C ... No cooking ware jugs of comparably small size are reported from the Agora or Kerameikos, but see jugs like ours from Anavyssos: Πρακτικά, 1911, p., 124, especially nos. 25, 27. |
P 20858 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l
Intact except for small chips.
Thirteen small jugs inventoried under one number. Raised base with flaring profile, slightly concave underside, and plump, pear-shaped ... 300-250 ... Thirteen small jugs inventoried under one number. |
Flat bottom and convex side wall.
The letters -AI- (Greek?) incised on the resting surface after firing with a sharp point. Left to right?
Coarse, pinkish buff clay, unglazed.
Jugs with flat bottoms ... Early 7th c. A.D ... Coarse, pinkish buff clay, unglazed.
Jugs with flat bottoms are veryy late in the Roman period: cf. |
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