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Inventory number

Ακρ. 9733

Category

Vessel

Period

Final Neolithic

Date

3200-3000 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.135 m
Rim diameter: 0.08 m
Body diameter: 0.14 m
Base diameter: 0.06 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 4

Description
Bibliography

Handmade jar found intact in 1965 in a well on the Acropolis west slope, close to the Beulé gate.

Its base is ring-shaped through which four drills are opened. It has a globular body and narrow upright rim. The two holes in each of the two handle-projections on the vessel’s shoulder would have facilitated the pot’s suspension with a cord or rope. The exterior, as well as the inside of the rim, are burnished and covered in red slip.

The vessel was used for storing, transporting or serving solids or liquids.

Πλάτων, Ν., «Εργασίαι διαμορφώσεως και τακτοποιήσεως του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 21 (1966), Μέρος B΄ 1 - Χρονικά, 1966, σελ. 42-43
Παντελίδου, Μ., Αι Προϊστορικαί Αθήναι, Αθήνα, 1975, σελ. 36, 212
Παντερμαλής, Δ., Ελευθεράτου, Σ., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Μουσείο Ακρόπολης. Οδηγός, Αθήνα, 2016, σελ. 38, 39, εικ. 22