Alabastron

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 9876

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1400-1375 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.055 m
Rim diameter: 0.104 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 11

Description
Bibliography

Alabastron mended of fragments and restored. It was found in 1963 in well Ε on the south slope of the Acropolis, in the area where the Stoa of Eumenes was later built.

Its base is slightly rounded, the body squat, the low neck cylindrical and the rim outturned. Through the horizontal handles possibly passed a cord or rope that helped the vessel’s suspension. It is covered in yellowish slip on which a thick wavy line has been painted with brown-red colour. The same colour has been used for the rim and handles.

Πλάτων, Ν., «Εργασίαι διαμορφώσεως και τακτοποιήσεως του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 19, 1964, σελ. 30-31
Παντελίδου, Μ., Αι Προϊστορικαί Αθήναι, Αθήνα, 1975, σελ. 32, 33
Mountjoy, P.A., Four early mycenaean wells from the south slope of the Acropolis at Athens, Miscellanea Graeca 4, Gent, 1981, σελ. 28, εικ. 13, αρ. κατ. 144