Identifier

EKEA-9-1-1148

Title

Kea Pottery Card for K.4146

Type

Text

Language

English

Medium

Typed 4x6 inch card

Description

Uncorrected OCR: K.4146 A & B
Frags. of pithos with
human face
H. of sherd A 0.191;
H. of frag. B 0.268; Th. av. 0.012.
A): = a single piece; B) = 5 sherds joined.
Four other unjoined sherds of this
pithos are in C 1069 and 1089
A) = C 1087 south of Wall CV, DEW III-206
EBA Room II. C-71.34. XLVIII.122.
B = C 1069 over and south of Wall CV.
XLIX.149.
DEW III-207
Moderately fine, very well fired,
orange-red biscuit, scored within;
semilustrous coating of slip on
exterior surface, application stopping
KA. 315.55, 57; 59, 61;65,67 on ends of handle. The fragments are
from gently concave part of the neck.
KB.482,483; 484, 485
(over)
The face on A comprises eyebrows in a continuous arc,
sharply projecting nose slashed twice below to denote
nostrils, round convex knobs for eyes. To the right
of the face and below, parts of slashed ridges.
On B, a tubular handle ("hollow grip") with flaring
ends and 5 vertical grooves, and plastic decoration
of slashed ridges, 3 horizontal lines at level of
lower part of handle and parts of 2 treelike motifs
above with vertical trunks and branches rising
obliquely right and left.
DEW -206
A:
B:
DEW III-207

Temporal Coverage

Modern

Spatial Coverage

Kea/Keos Greece

Subject

Pottery

K.4146

EKEA_9_1_1148

Creator

Kea Excavation Team

Rights

In Copyright

Publisher

University of Cincinnati. Department of Classics