Amphora

Peucetian painted krater; Peucetian geometric style. Enitrely covered with glaze bands or Geometric ornament except underside of lip. Constricted, spreading ring foot. Nearly spherical body. Broad lip set at a right angle neck. Very broad strap handles joining at point of greatest diameter of body and at top edge of lip. Exterior of foot: solid glaze. Lower wall: 6 wheel-glazed bands. Above them, A&B: two large panels framed on three sides by a broad band; within the frame multiple vertical glaze lines. At level of lower handle attachment a broad wheel-glazed band. A&B, between handles are two zones of decoration separated by three groups of wheel-glazed bands, a zig-zag line in the one above and a zone of hatched small lozenges alternating with plain lozenges. On top of lip are the four corners of a square composed of glazed lines and bands, two corners aligned with the handles and two with the centers of front and back. On each handle is a framed ladder pattern. On the underside of the foot is an equal armed cross painted in pairs of glaze lines. Intact. Matte black glaze (manganese glaze?).