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[Agora Object] P 18744: Dish

Mended from four pieces; center of floor and chip from rim missing. Nearly flat floor; low sloping wall; rim flat on top and with a down-turned vertical face, sharply profiled and grooved. On the underside, ... May 1947 ... Thymiaterion or kernos? Fine hard

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[Agora Object] P 12148: Plemochoe with Glaze Decoration

One handle and chips missing. Foot flat below, edge rounded; keel not set off from lower wall; upper wall relatively straight, lip low and thick. Unpierced. Pinkish-buff clay partly fired light buff at ... 11-14 March 1938 ... Kernos pit 1, under west face of Valerian wall. 4th. c. B.C.

[Agora Object] P 9683: Plemochoe

All of rim and mouth, most of upper walls and handles missing, and fragments of lower walls and base. Large kernos on flaring foot; the upper wall rounds inward above projecting flange, pierced with at ... 20-22 March 1937 ... Large kernos on flaring foot;

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[Agora Object] P 12132: Plemochoe

A chip missing beside one handle. Flaring foot, wheel-ridged on its top, concave beneath. High stem. Rounded body, with a narrow projecting flange at the point of greatest circumference. Two small horizontal ... 12-14 March 1938 ... Kernos pit 1, under Valerian wall.

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[Agora Object] P 22962: Lid Fragment: West Slope

Broken all around. Probably from a heavy lid. A band of moulded egg and dart around center of fragment with decorated surfaces above and below. Above: a kernos in very heavy added clay with a branch through ... 1 April 1953 ... below. Above: a kernos in very

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[Agora Object] P 23833: Plemochoe Fragments

Fragment a) preserves part of the lower wall of the bowl, with a little of the horizontal flange and one handle. Fragment b) not certainly belonging, comes from a kernos of the same fabric and about the ... 12 April 1954 ... kernos of the same fabric and

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[Agora Object] P 12138: Plemochoe with Lid

Much of foot, both handles and about half of body broken away. High, hollow foot elaborately moulded, markedly angled shoulder above keel; lip grooved around outer edge, and flanged inside for lid. Keel ... 11-14 March 1938 ... Diam. (lip) 0.103, (lid) 0.088; H. (kernos) 0.145; P.H. (lid) 0.028

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[Agora Object] P 21370: Red Figure Skyphos Fragments

Two non-joining fragments from a skyphos, giving parts of rim and walls. Triptolemos' departure. a) Most of the central part of the scene is preserved. On the right, lower half of Triptolemos in the chariot, ... 31 May 1951 ... large kernos on a table(?); ... phiale, kernos and the

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[Agora Deposit] H 13:2: Pyre

Sacrificial Pyre = Pit in floor (identified as pyre by SIR); with the characteristic small plates and saucers. "Saucer Grave" at 12/ΚΑ. Dimensions: 2m (length)x 0.70 (width). North of north wall of building ... First half 4th c. B.C ... presence of a kernos are

[Agora Deposit] B 13:8: Well South of Kolonos Agoraios

A well toward the south end of Kolonos Agoraios. Period of use fill dated to ca. 325-260 B.C. and upper fill dated to ca. 250-225 B.C. in Agora XXX. Diameter 1.10m, water level 6.90m. Kernoi and many lead ... Ca. 325-260 B.C ... springing from a kernos make it

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[Agora Object] P 12293: Red Figure Oinochoe Fragments

From a small choe: a) Two joining fragments preserving part of upper wall and neck. b) Wall fragment. Preserved of the scene is the partly draped figure of a girl, seated right, driving by a dog in a ... 19 March 1938 ... Kernos pit 2.

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1215

Single large fragment from top of lid. Dome divided into two zones by raised, reserved band with stamped egg and dart between grooves, with a ridge below. Above dividing band, a kernos sits on a mound, ... 350-300? ... Above dividing band, a kernos

[Agora Lot] Σ 674: North of Circular Building; Narrow Trench

Lots Σ 668-671, 674, 675: 376 fine ware sherds and two five-gallon tins of coarse ware sherds, including the following: 3 red-figured; 7 oinochoai (for two, cf. Agora XII, no. 115/118; four, second half ... Late 5th c. B.C ... handler; miniature kernos

[Agora Lot] Σ 671: Narrow Trench. Part East of Late Pit

Lots Σ 668-671, 674, 675: 376 fine ware sherds and two five-gallon tins of coarse ware sherds, including the following: 3 red-figured; 7 oinochoai (for two, cf. Agora XII, no. 115/118; four, second half ... Late 5th c. B.C ... handler; miniature kernos

[Agora Lot] Σ 675: Martyr North/Northeast of Circular Building; Fill of Narrow Trench

Lots Σ 668-671, 674, 675: 376 fine ware sherds and two five-gallon tins of coarse ware sherds, including the following: 3 red-figured; 7 oinochoai (for two, cf. Agora XII, no. 115/118; four, second half ... Late 5th c. B.C ... handler; miniature kernos

[Agora Lot] Σ 668: Narrow Trench. Part NE of Circular Building

Black glazed and selected coarse. Lots Σ 668-671, 674, 675: 376 fine ware sherds and two five-gallon tins of coarse ware sherds, including the following: 3 red-figured; 7 oinochoai (for two, cf. Agora ... Late 5th c. B.C ... handler; miniature kernos

[Agora Lot] Σ 669: Narrow Trench. Part NE of Circular Building

Coarse. Lots Σ 668-671, 674, 675: 376 fine ware sherds and two five-gallon tins of coarse ware sherds, including the following: 3 red-figured; 7 oinochoai (for two, cf. Agora XII, no. 115/118; four, second ... Late 5th c. B.C ... handler; miniature kernos

[Agora Lot] Σ 670: Narrow Trench. Part NE of Circular Building

Coarse. Lots Σ 668-671, 674, 675: 376 fine ware sherds and two five-gallon tins of coarse ware sherds, including the following: 3 red-figured; 7 oinochoai (for two, cf. Agora XII, no. 115/118; four, second ... Late 5th c. B.C ... handler; miniature kernos

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 31, s. 76, p. 53

Pausanias, 1.14.4. Triptolemos on Athenian Paintings. Triptolemos on Athenian Paintings; Athenian Vase Painting. Plato, Lg. 1.642D-E. RE 6, 1 (1907), s.v. Epimenides (O. Kern). H.A. Shapiro, Oracle-Mongers ... Agora 31 53 ... H.A. Shapiro, Oracle-Mongers in Peisistratid Athens, Kernos 3, 1990, pp. 337-345

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 7, s. 248, p. 232

Howland Type 53. Cistern. Lamps stands. Well. Pit. Laureion mines. Howland Type 54. Lead token. Leaf Shop. Howland Type 55. Howland Type 56. Lenaios. Howland Type 57. Leo-. Leonteus. Howland Type 58. Loeschcke ... Agora 7 232 D 4:1 D 11:1 E 14:7 Q 13:1 S 21:3 A 18:1 M 17:1 N 19:1 R 10:1 R 13:1 R 13:2 D 12:1 N 20:5 B 14:3 B 21:1 C 14:4 ... Kernos

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 31, s. 11, p. xi

Select Bibliography and Abbreviations; General Works. Agora 1, Evelyn B. Harrison, Portrait Sculpture, 1953. Agora 3, R.E. Wycherley, Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia, 1957, reprinted 1973. Agora 4, ... Agora 31 xi ... Bakalakis, G., 1991, Les kernoi éleusiniens, Kernos 4, pp. 105-117

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 31, s. 15, p. xv

Larson, J. 1995. Greek Heroine Cults, Madison. Laubscher, H. 1966. Skulpturen aus Tralles, IstMitt 16, pp. 115-129. Lauenstein, D. 1987. Die Mysterien von Eleusis, Stuttgart. Lauter, H. 1985. Der Kultplatz ... Agora 31 xv ... Linders, T. 1988. Kerchnos and Kerchnion-Not Kernos but Granulation, OpAth

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 31, s. 14, p. xiv

Craft, F. 1974. Eleusis und die orphische Dichtung Athens in vorhellenistischer Zeit, Berlin. Graindor, P. 1927. Athènes sous Auguste, Cairo. Graindor, P. 1930. Un milliardaire antique: Hérode Atticus ... Agora 31 xiv ... Jones, J.E. 1982. Another Eleusinian Kernos from Laureion, BSA 77, pp. 191-199