Amphora

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 9768

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1460-1375 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.27 m
Rim diameter: 0.11 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 24

Description
Bibliography

Amphora mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1964 in well Ζ on the south slope of the Acropolis, in the area where the Stoa of Eumenes was later built.

Its base is flat and the tall body almost globular. The tall, cylindrical neck is decorated with a plastic ring and the handles are vertical. The pot’s surface is burnished and covered in thin brown slip.

Πλάτων, Ν., «Εργασίαι διαμορφώσεως και τακτοποιήσεως του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 20, 1965, σελ. 29
Παντελίδου, Μ., Αι Προϊστορικαί Αθήναι, Αθήνα, 1975, σελ. 32
Mountjoy, P.A., Four early mycenaean wells from the south slope of the Acropolis at Athens, Miscellanea Graeca 4, Gent, 1981, σελ. 36, εικ. 19, αρ. κατ. 213