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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 ΝΑΚ 463

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Protogeometric Period

Date

960-900 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.084 m
Rim diameter: 0.168 m
Base diameter: 0.05 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 44

Description
Bibliography

Cup mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1957 at a cemetery on the south slope of the Acropolis and comes from Burial XXVIII-M. Along with thirteen more pots, two iron pins and clay beads, which possibly come from a necklace, it was deposited as a burial offering.

Its base is flat, the deep body conical, the rim horizontal and its handle vertical. The pot’s surface is covered in black paint save the lowest part of the body, the rim and handle. The latter are left in clay colour and are adorned with lines, bands and triangles.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 31, πίν. 19ε, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 89
Lemos, Ι., The protogeometric Aegean: the archaeology of the late eleventh and tenth centuries BC, Oxford, 2002, σελ. 55
Papadopoulos, J.K., «The Charitonidis Class: a group of large Athenian Late Protogeometric skyphoi», Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Istitute at Athens and Rome 8, 2015, σελ. 11-12