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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 ΝΑΚ 473

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Between Late Protogeometric and Early Geometric Period

Date

920-880 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.2 m
Rim diameter: 0.132 m
Body diameter: 0.175 m
Base diameter: 0.07 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 45

Description
Bibliography

Handmade cooking pot mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1957 at a cemetery on the south slope of the Acropolis and comes from Burial XXVIII-M. Along with thirteen more pots, two iron fibulae and clay beads, which possibly come from a necklace, it was deposited as a burial offering.

It is round-bottomed with globular body, wide neck, outturned rim and vertical handle. The pot’s surface is black due to the fire lit during the deposition of the dead.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 30, πίν. 19α, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 85
Lemos, Ι., The protogeometric Aegean: the archaeology of the late eleventh and tenth centuries BC, Oxford, 2002, σελ. 86 υποσημ. 262, 87
Papadopoulos, J.K., «The Charitonidis Class: a group of large Athenian Late Protogeometric skyphoi», Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Istitute at Athens and Rome 8, 2015, σελ. 11-12