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DÁGI, MARIANNA: 'Tinkers' and 'Patchers': Some Notes on the Ancient Repairs of Greek Vases
APPENDIX 65 1. Rim fragment of a stemmed bowl 66 (fig. 9) A.45 (9639) - deposit. Late Helladic HIB. H.: 5.3 cm; W.: 4.2 cm; estimated diameter of the rim: ca. 31 cm. Unpublished. The rim is slightly concave. The clay and the slip are a light yellowish brown (Munsell 10YR 8/4). Painted with dark brown (10YR 2/1), on the interior edge of the rim there is a narrower, and on the exterior a broader band. Under 9. Rim fragment of a Mycenean stemmed bowl. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 65 I have ordered the catalogue by chronology and give descriptions from technical point of view. Entries that show traces of modern repair are marked with an asterisk. I have omitted those pieces from the list in which the holes obviously served for hanging it. A Gnathia lekythos is not included in the list either (inv. no. 50.192, from the collection of János Hajnal). That vase has a rectangular cut on the body, a cylindrical hole on the stub of the handle and a blind hole in the upper part of the broken spout. The authenticity of the lekythos is very doubtful, because the remains of the neck and the handle belong to an epichysis and not to a lekythos. Neither around the rectangular cut nor on the fragment originally fixed into the cut and removed later during conservation is there any channel or hole, the decoration of the vase with the black slip can be rubbed off easily, the black slip is blistered and flaked off at various spots of the surface, on the interior no traces of a potter's wheel can be seen but the clay is smeared. 66 See Mountjoy, RA., Mycenaean Decorated Pottery. A Guide to Identification, Göteborg 1986, 119, FS 305, nos. 3 and 205. I express my thanks to Judit Lebegyev for her kind help with specifying the Mycenaean pieces. the rim on the exterior there is a broad and a narrow strip and three curved lines connected to them. Most possibly the remains of a running spiral. An oval twin-sunk hole can be found near the right fracture. The fractures are even. The hole is 5 x 6 mm.
