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Inventory number

Ακρ. 9787

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1460-1375 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.054 m
Rim diameter: 0.13 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 14

Description
Bibliography

Cup 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 flat, the hemispherical body shallow and the rim slightly flaring. The exterior is burnished and painted with thin red slip. The vertical handle helped the user to raise the vessel and drink out of it.

Πλάτων, Ν., «Εργασίαι διαμορφώσεως και τακτοποιήσεως του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 19, 1964, σελ. 30-31, πίν. 21β
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. 23, εικ. 7, πίν. 7c, αρ. κατ. 46
Mountjoy, P.A., Mycenean Athens, Jonsered, 1995, σελ. 25, εικ. 24