Object: P 183
Inventory Number: P 183
Section Number: Ε 913
Title: Plate Fragments with Sgraffito Decoration
Category: Pottery
Description: Plate fragment with sgraffito, large bird.
a) From center of plate, depicts large portion of wing; in field, tendrils.
b) From rim, with head of large bird (eagle?); in field to left, tendrils.

Yellow iridescent glaze over white slip through which decoration is engraved. The slip continues over the outside of the plate. Brick red clay.
Storage: Study Collections-Case No. 39-Β
Negatives: Leica, 2-196, XXIII-66, color slide
Dimensions: Diam. a) (base) 0.095; P.L. b) 0.078
Date Of Discovery: 1931
Section: Ε
Lot: 43a
Period: Byzantine
Bibliography: AgoraPicBk 22 (1985), fig. 35 (right).
 Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 311, fig. 8 c.
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