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Inventory number

Ακρ. 9829

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1460-1375 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.202 m
Rim diameter: 0.223 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 29

Description
Bibliography

Tripod cooking pot mended of many 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 ovoid body is deep, the outturned rim wide and the handles vertical. The three legs attached to the body permitted for the food preparation over the fire. The pot’s surface retains clear traces of fire due to its use.

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. 18, 22, εικ. 6, πίν. 5b, αρ. κατ. 25