Amphora

Tomb 3A = Herscher Tomb 803A. Black slip II amphora. Hard yellow-brown to light red clay with small inclusions. Thin worn streaked slip, mottled black, red, and brown. Peg base, piriform body, cylindrical neck, slightly flaring rim; two opposed vertical handles, rectangular in section, from mid-neck to upper body. Decoration: on upper body, a pair of impressed dots either side. Brock, fig. 17; cf. _SCE_ I., pl. LX.4, LXI; _SCE_ IV:1A, fig. CXI.11; _MCBA_, fig. XXIX.6; for a jug in the same fabric and style, cf. 812A.32.