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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.