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Inventory number

Ακρ. 9767

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1460-1375 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.268 m
Rim diameter: 0.088 m
Diameter: 0.2 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 23

Description
Bibliography

Jug mended of 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.

It is slightly round-bottomed and its body is ovoid. A plastic ring runs around the neck which becomes wider on the top. The cutaway mouth facilitated the pouring of the liquid content. The pot’s surface is burnished and covered in thin reddish slip. Impressed diagonal lines and shallow grooves adorn the lowest part of the vessel.

Πλάτων, Ν., «Εργασίαι διαμορφώσεως και τακτοποιήσεως του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 20, 1965, σελ. 29, πίν. 27α
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, πίν. 17c, αρ. κατ. 216
Mountjoy, P.A., Mycenean Athens, Jonsered, 1995, σελ. 25, εικ. 23