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Inventory number

Ακρ. 9758

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1500-1460 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.255 m
Rim diameter: 0.102 m
Diameter: 0.21 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 19

Description
Bibliography

Piriform (meaning pear-shaped) jar mended of fragments and restored. It was found in 1964 in well H on the south slope of the Acropolis, in the area where the Stoa of Eumenes was later built.

Its base is flat, the body ovoid and the neck cylindrical with outturned rim. The three horizontal handles on the shoulder have been restored. The exterior is covered in yellowish slip. The surface is adorned with wavy and horizontal bands of brown-red colour with which the neck and base are also painted.

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

Its base is ring-shaped, the body ovoid and the neck cylindrical with outturned rim. The three horizontal handles on the shoulder have been restored. The exterior is covered in yellowish slip. The surface is adorned with wavy and horizontal bands of brown-red colour with which the neck and base are also painted.

Πλάτων, Ν., «Εργασίαι διαμορφώσεως και τακτοποιήσεως του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 20, 1965, σελ. 29-30, 32, πίν. 30γ
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. 49, εικ. 31, πίν. 27a, αρ. κατ. 406
Παντερμαλής, Δ., Ελευθεράτου, Σ., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Μουσείο Ακρόπολης. Οδηγός, Αθήνα, 2016, σελ. 40, 41, εικ. 24