APC Image: AK 0891Top: three Late Mycenaean Vases (LH III). Left and center: stirrup vases with simple decorations, consisting chiefly of parallel lines, but with a different pattern on the shoulder. The body is either squat with broad flat top; or globular. Right: small shallow bowl with a spout and two handles projecting horizontally from the rim. Bottom: three undecorated Mycenaean vases of a common type (LH III). Left: low kylix with a single handle and with a sharp bend at the shoulder; made on wheel, but bent out of shape in firing. Center: tall slander kylix on high stem, with the body merging gradually into the stem, and with two vertrical handles; made on wheel, but bent out of shape in firing. Right: ladle with a high loop-handle extending vertically from the rim. The sides of the vessel continue in an unbroken curve to the bottom which is without base. Since the vase cannot stand by itself, it was probably intended to be suspended by the handle when not in use.
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Object Description:   Top: three Late Mycenaean Vases (LH III). Left and center: stirrup vases with simple decorations, consisting chiefly of parallel lines, but with a different pattern on the shoulder. The body is either squat with broad flat top; or globular. Right: small shallow bowl with a spout and two handles projecting horizontally from the rim. Bottom: three undecorated Mycenaean vases of a common type (LH III). Left: low kylix with a single handle and with a sharp bend at the shoulder; made on wheel, but bent out of shape in firing. Center: tall slander kylix on high stem, with the body merging gradually into the stem, and with two vertrical handles; made on wheel, but bent out of shape in firing. Right: ladle with a high loop-handle extending vertically from the rim. The sides of the vessel continue in an unbroken curve to the bottom which is without base. Since the vase cannot stand by itself, it was probably intended to be suspended by the handle when not in use.
Negative Number:   AK 0891
Category:   Pottery
Subcategory:   Vessel
Site:   Acropolis, North Slope
City:   Athens
Region:   Attica
Country:   Greece
Format:   Glass-plate
Dimensions:   18 X 24
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 370, 371, figs. 43a, 43b, 43c, 44b, 44a, 44c.
Repository:   ASCSA ARCHIVES
Collection Title:   Archaeological Photographic Collection
Series:   AK
Image Width:   2841
Image Height:   2126