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| Numerous fragments preserve base, much of walls and part of rim; completed in plaster. Large lekane on flat bottom; flaring walls; flaring rim above a ridged line; lug handles.
Buff clay. Notebook references ... 8 April 1958 ... Notebook references before lifting of pot call it "Pithos E". |
About one-third of mouth and neck preserved. Neck almost straight, flat out-turned lip. On shoulder, just below neck, a raised horizontal rib.
Gritty micaceous red clay, gray at core. Well E. Leica PD ... 17-26 March 1937 |
| Part of a cup with hollow stem glazed inside. Incised band around stem. In medallion part of a girl right(?).
Incised through glaze, inside stem:
ADDENDA Subject uncertain: youth reclining? Well F, ... 17-27 June 1935 |
| Upper body, fairly neatly chipped off below shoulder; bits are missing from walls, neck and rim; restored in plaster. Sloping shoulder, wide high slightly concave neck, flat projecting rim. Outer edge ... 22-26 February 1937 |
A handle and small bit of the side are preserved. The handle is the shape of approximately half an oval and is horizontal with a hole pierced vertically through it. The wall is heavy. Transverse bars painted ... 1932 |
| Medallion with plain reserved border. None of the stem remains, but a bit of the reserved handle space outside. Inside, the face of a youth, right, the edge of his right shoulder covering the lower part ... 4 April 1935 |
| From the rim and shoulder of a large pithos with flat projecting rim. Around the shoulder two piecrust ridges connected at intervals by vertical piecrust ridges. Two rows of incised zigzags between the ... 22 March 1937 |
Broken all around and behind. Fragment of wall of pithos; in relief on exterior surface, lower part of forelegs of horse, resting on horizontal ground-line in relief.
Thick fabric of coarse micaceous ... 22 May 1939 |
Intact.
A cone-shaped stone with a small knob at end.
On flat circular bottom is crudely engraved a bird (?).
Light green stone, soapy texture; opaque.
Byzantine. Pithos with coins nos. 15-17 for the ... 16 March 1937 |
| Wall fragment from a large handmade pot. On the outside, a small raised knob from which springs a decoration (or symbol?) incised in the unbaked clay.
Coarse greenish-buff clay with many black bits; slipped ... 17-26 March 1937 |
| A flat circular lid with two loop handles parallel to each other on its top and a cutting for lifting at its edge. Broken in antiquity, and mended with five lead clamps. When found, it had again come apart ... 11 May 1934 |
| Upper three-fourths of sides preserved; most of rim and one handle. Bottom missing. Squat pot with broad shoulders, no neck, and a low vertical rim around opening. Two band handles, vertical. Wheel grooves ... 16 March 1937 |
A small bowl with flaring sides and ring foot. In the center, a medallion with a simple design of incised lines. Around the sides, two bands, one narrow, one wider, of vertical incised lines.
Light red ... 16 March 1937 |
| Right side of head, broken off at right of nose and diagonally across bottom with break running from chin to base of skull. Face very badly battered.
Life-sized male head, heavily bearded, with short hair, ... 10 May 1965 |
| Two fragments, one from the wall, the other from the rim. Nearly vertical wall; broad horizontal projecting rim, set just below plain lip, and pierced with two large holes. Decoration: on the rim, a band ... 17-26 March 1937 |
Low bowl with slightly incurving sides. Restored in plaster. Ring foot. In center of interior only, an incised design, much of which is missing; perhaps a Maltese cross, crosshatched with loops over top ... 16 March 1937 |
| Perhaps from upper shoulder of a large pithos, just below the neck. Below the neck, a raised moulding with a band of guilloche in relief below.
Gritty micaceous pink clay; slipped outside. B' building ... 9 April 1935 |
Base fragment.
From bottom of fenestrated stand. Impressed tongues on vertical face and on finished surface at left; running spiral on the sloping upper part. Red pithos fabric, brown at surfaces.
Also ... Context ca. 600-575 B.C. |
Shoulder fragment.
Below the ridge a triple guilloche, the middle cable squared off to form a zone of lozenges; raised dots in the loops or squares.
For the same scheme in Siphnos see B.S.A., XLIV, 1949, ... Context, late archaic accumulation deposited ca. 460-450 B.C., or later. |
| Part of standing surface and leg of a fenestrated stand, torus moulding at bottom, straight surface, another moulding, upper part set back. Tongues on lower zone, guilloche on upper, smaller tongues on ... (1955) |
| Nose and lower legs broken off. Trace of rider or girth on back.
Fragmentary.
Buff clay with black glaze remaining over much of body.
Cf. Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 617-620. Just outside break in north wall ... 2 August 1967 |
Floor fragment with start of handle on outside. Max. dim. 0.055; est. diam. of tondo 0.010.
I, heel and buttocks of a figure crouching to right. Behind him:
Reserved line for tondo border. Preliminary ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... Probably by the Pithos Painter. Cf. these kneeling or crouching figures: Louvre G 91 (ARV2 139, 1); London, B.M. E 29 (ARV2 139, 8); London, B.M. E 30 (ARV2 139, 9). |
a) Most of the bottom and part of the wall.
b) Non-joining wall fragment.
Decorated around the wall with a broad band of overlapping nicking.
Flat bottom, marked off from the steep walls by a groove ... 30 March 1948 ... E-W Trench B; mixed fill around Pithos P. |
Mended with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably part of the bowl and lip, all of one handle, and part of the foot. Two incised lines on stem. Glaze misfired reddish and greenish ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... H. 0.078; est. diam. at rim 0.161; est. diam. of tondo 0.095; diam. of foot 0.07. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 287, cat. no. 56, pl. 36.
... Similar objects appear in the tondi of two other cups by the Pithos Painter, London, B.M. E 29 and E 30 (ARV2 139, 8--9). |
Floor fragment with stem and fillet. Incised groove above and below fillet. Max. dim. 0.073; est. diam. of tondo 0.09.
I, youth (part of back and arm) reclining, with his back to the viewer. Below, mattress ... Ca. 510-500 B.C. |
| Portions of the upper part only preserved, with about one-third of the rim and parts of both figured panels. Severely burnt, one side more than the other. Glazed inside except under shoulder; rim glazed ... 19-23 March 1936 ... Parts of three figures preserved, around a large pithos, the central figure holding up a basket of purple grapes. ... Fragments:
a) From neck.
b) Wall fragment depicts two silens at pithos.
c) Silen, left.
d) Pithos and legs(?).
e) Upper right side of panel from A.
f) Lower right corner of panel from A. |
| Less than half preserved. Large plate on very low ring foot. Almost vertical rim A warrior, facing, wearing a high conical cap, a tight-fitting suit of crisscrossed underwear covering arms and legs, and ... 16 March 1937 |
Bowl fragment with part of handle reserve on outside.
Max. dim. 0.083; est. diam. of tondo 0.10.
I, youth (face, part of head and shoulder) to right, a kidaris on his head. In the lower right at the ... Ca. 510-500 B.C. |
Almost half preserved. Restored in plaster. Rather high ring foot. Three zones of ornament consisting of vertical lines, incised and sgraffito, the middle one interrupted four times(?) by a medallion of ... 17 March 1937 |
Floor fragment with start of stem on underside. Incised groove above and below fillet. Glaze fired greenish in places; pitted on inside. P.H. 0.05; max. dim. 0.121; diam. of tondo 0.087. E. Vanderpool, ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... P.H. 0.05; max. dim. 0.121; diam. of tondo 0.087. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 288, cat. no. 60, pl. 37.
... Reserved line for tondo border.
The Pithos Painter (ARV2 one 117, 23; ARV2 140, 37). |
Fragment of lip, floor, and stem with fillet. Strengthened with plaster. Est. diam. at rim 0.15; max. dim. 0.133. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 281, cat. no. 39, pl. 31.
I, man kneeling to right, ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... Est. diam. at rim 0.15; max. dim. 0.133. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 281, cat. no. 39, pl. 31.
... Red: fillet.
The Pithos Painter (ARV2 one 116, 6; ARV2 139, 7). |
Closed vase fragments.
a) Part of neck of a jug(?) showing a feline with reverted head; dot rosettes.
b) Wall fragment with parts of two animal zones, right; dot and incised blob rosettes.
c) From shoulder ... 28 April 1954 ... showing a feline with reverted head; dot rosettes.
b) Wall fragment with parts of two animal zones, right; dot and incised blob rosettes.
c) From shoulder and wall with two animal zones separated by a double row of dots.
d) and e) Small joining wall fragments .
... Beneath tiles of pithos (b and c found in same pit, lower down). |
Most of lip and bowl preserved. Glaze abraded in part on outside of rim. P.H. 0.044; diam. at rim 0.13; diam. of tondo 0.082. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 284, cat. no. 46, pl. 34.
I, warrior ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... P.H. 0.044; diam. at rim 0.13; diam. of tondo 0.082. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 284, cat. no. 46, pl. 34.
... Manner of the Pithos Painter (ARV2 one 118, 10; not in ARV2). |
Lip and bowl fragment with most of one handle. Est. diam. at rim 0.16; P.H. 0.054; diam. of tondo 0.094. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, pp. 283--284, cat. no. 45, pl. 34.
I, warrior (nude but for a ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... Est. diam. at rim 0.16; P.H. 0.054; diam. of tondo 0.094. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, pp. 283--284, cat. no. 45, pl. 34.
... Manner of the Pithos Painter (ARV2 one 118, 9; ARV2 139, 18). |
| Inscribed fragments of dedicatory inscription of the Stoa of Attalos.
Fragment ΣΑ 317, (a), inscribed face only preserved.
Many additional fragments with parts of letters are preserved.
Fragment ΣΑ 794, ... a) (ΣΑ 317) March 1949
b) (ΣΑ 794) 4 October 1949
c) (ΣΑ 875) November 1949
d) (ΣΑ 876) November 1949
e) (Τ 3112) 31 March 1955 ... Fragment ΣΑ 794, (b), joining fragment from the dedicatory inscription of the Stoa of Attalos, preserving the lower part of the "E" from the word "βασιλευς".
... Fragment Τ 3112, (e), part of one letter, "lamda" or "delta" preserved.
... Possibly part of post-excavation accumulation and hence from earlier Greek excavations, or perhaps from fallen wall of Byzantine pithos ar edge of trench.
b) (ΣΑ 794), found in debris of late Roman Fortification wall, just north of middle tower (Piers 12-13 E).
c) (ΣΑ 875), found in marble pile from demolition of Middle Tower.
d) (ΣΑ 876), found in marble pile from demolition of Middle Tower.
e) (Τ 3112), found in marble pile.
f) (Υ 454), found in the walls of old excavation houses.
g) (Υ 458), found in the walls of old excavation houses. |
One fragment, mended from several, preserves part of the shoulder and rim; another comes from the body below the shoulder. A number of shoulder and body fragments do not join. Nothing of base preserved ... 25-26 May 1936 |
| d) base with concave underside.
e), f), m) handles and remaining wall fragments.
a)-d) made up of numerous joining fragments.
e)-n) single fragments.
A) Two youths clad in flowing chlamys and petasoi ... 2, 3 August 1967 ... d) base with concave underside.
e), f), m) handles and remaining wall fragments.
a)-d) made up of numerous joining fragments.
e)-n) single fragments.
... Probably thrown out from interior fill in digging of Byz. pithos no. 2. Container S 452: from road cut north of north wall of Hieron. |
Floor fragment. Max. dim. 0.045; est. diam of tondo 0.11. H. A. Thompson, Hesperia 17, 1948, pl. 68:1.
I, satyr (most of wreathed head with wrinkled brow) to right. Above:
Behind him, part of the reserved ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... Crouching satyr holding a wineskin: London, B.M. E 24 by Epiktetos (ARV2 75, 57; Addenda 168). ... Satyr kneeling to right, reaching into a large pithos set into the ground: Louvre G 91 by the Pithos Painter (ARV2 139, 1). ... The satyr on 1601 bears a slight resemblance to the one attributed to a painter near Oltos, London, B.M. E 812.1 (ARV2 68, 10), but there is not enough preserved on 1601 to be certain of an attribution. |
Floor fragment with start of stem. Incised line on stem. Part of the glaze misfired to a reddish brown. Max. dim. 0.075; est. diam. of tondo 0.09. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 284, cat. no. 49, ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... Max. dim. 0.075; est. diam. of tondo 0.09. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 284, cat. no. 49, pl. 31:49.
... In Addenda and Corrigenda, p. 1952, to ARV2 one 116--117, Beazley says that 1587 "recalls the Pithos Painter and his Circle"; not in ARV2. |
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