A wide rim with raised lip and two holes near the edge. A band of black paint around the lip with pairs of lines leading from the centre to the edge. Under the lip is a stripped chevron pattern, broken up by vertical black lines.

This piece joins with another rim fragment at the Ashmolean in Oxford (AE 509A). They come from a pithos (large storage jar), as indicated by the broad rim and holes for tying on a lid. The small lip above the rim also helped to keep the lid in place. The black painted chevrons are typical of the Geometric style of Cycladic pottery.

Provenance

Excavated at Phylakopi, Melos, c. 1899; Thomas Dinham Atkinson (1864–1948), by whom bequeathed to Winchester College in 1948.