Pan (Object)

Conical cup with one vertical handle at an indentation where the wall is pressed inward. Coarse, red (2.5 YR 4/6) to dark reddish brown (2.5 YR 3/4) clay, with light and dark inclusions. Wiped with water. Undecorated. Handle and minor breaks repaired; a few fragments missing form rim. Signs of burning in the interior, at the rim, possibly from use as a lamp. A common shape. Compare (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 2, no. 29 (Gournia); Dawkins 1902-03: 324, fig. 24, no. 3 (Palaikastro); Coldstream and Huxley et al. 1973: fig. 91 and pl. 79, nos. 66-67, fig. 93 and pl. 81, nos. 31-33 (Kythera). For additional references see Coldstream and Huxley et al. 1973: 257.