trial_description_8:
The base and all three handles are preserved, in fair condition; large chips missing from the base. Of the wall of the vase only small and much corroded scraps remain.
Pale green patination, when found, over all, and remaining on the base which has been less thoroughly cleaned than the handles.4
trial_archivenotes_13:
Addenda: Sun April 2014: Ann Steiner: The notation in pencil on the card is inaccurate. The description of the lot and of the excavation of the lot from which the fragments of the bronze hydria come describes the context clearly as at a depth of 7.55 meters-not "upper fill" as the card states, and the other material from the lot dates to VII-VI centuries B.C. The correct description for the context is: from tumbled bedrock around mouth" and it is describing not the mouth at what was once ground level, but the "mouth" or better yet "preserved original shaft" of a collapsed well, which was in fact considerably below ground level, at a depth of 7.55m. It is extremely confusing, because the lot below Z 686, which is Z 694, is in fact from the period of use of the well, 425-400.
The two important points here are that: 1) the hydria does not come from "upper fill," and 2) the pottery for the lot from which the hydria comes dates to the VII-Vi centuries B.C.