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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1959 ΝΑΚ 29

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Geometric Period

Date

735-710 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.035 m
Rim diameter: 0.19 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 70

Description
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Plate mended of many fragments and restored, found in 1959 at a cemetery located on the south slope of the Acropolis. It comes from Burial I-19, where it was used as a lid for the burial vessel.

Its body is shallow and wide with horizontal handles. The inside is covered in reddish paint except for a band that runs around the middle of the body and remains in clay colour. On the outside decoration consists in zones of leaves, horizontal bands and one wavy line.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 6, πίν. 2α, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 2