A nearly complete, but heavily mended, Corinthian Geometric jug. Yellow-buff fabric. Long, narrow neck with band handle attached at the rim and shoulder. Globular body with flat base. Solid black glaze on the trefoil mouth. Black glaze on the mouth, a portion of the neck, and an area of the shoulder misfired to red. Bands of black glaze on the neck, shoulder, and body, and on the exterior of the handle. At the level of the handle attachment to the shoulder is a wide band of black glaze with reverse sigmas in groups of six, painted in a fine solution of yellow clay (description from Schaeffer, Sardis M10, p. 19, cat. Cor 1). Solid black glaze on the lower part of the body and on the ring of the foot.

J. N. Coldstream (private correspondence, February 16, 1990) dates the jug to “the early years of Late Geometric,” in part on “the grouping of the sigmas with empty spaces in between.”