Unnumbered pageScan 140 of 150
1600 P 1560
pointed jug, ribbed ware, graffito
Drawing: profile of rim/neck
[photograph] Film Vg 30-21 (x-q) 40.34 2nd AD or later? Note from VG's index of jar stamps (s.v. CE in Monogram file) : "a one-handled "amphora" of a type which can be traced from the 1st BC to IR times". The example* illustrated on the file card, attributed to about zero BC-AD (over) *Athens, Agora, P 773
thickened rim, slightly incurving ext. mouth; handle hollow on top; ring foot with deep cup-like hollow; the horizontal ribbing is lacking just ak above the foot and shallow on the shoulder and on most of the interior save the neck where it is deeper on the inside than the out; graffito, see over
fine micaceous reddish brown clay, blackened on most of the exterior and part of the interior surface
mended from many pieces; many still missing from the body
H 0.475 * rim diam. 0.18 St Hermogenes 13/iv/40 Trench 44, assembled (by mender) from sherds of depth 3.30, S extension
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain