[Agora Publication] Industrial Religion: The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora

Rotroff, S. I ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia Supplement 47 978-0-87661-547-8 ... 2013

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[Agora Object] P 24020: Plemochoe

Stem broken off; one handle missing and chips. Well made large kernos with four string-holes in flange (one not pierced through). Unglazed; hard red clay (cooking fabric). In a rough pit cut in floor ... 26 May 1954

[Agora Object] P 24021: Saucer

Small plain saucer covered with red glaze; bottom left rough from wheel. In a rough pit cut in floor north of strosis 6. 3340 Leica ... 26 May 1954

[Agora Object] P 24022: Plate

Parts of rim and a little of floor missing. Low ring foot; a groove below the rim outside, two grooves in space within foot and one inside near outer edge of floor. Lightly ridged rim, sloping inwards ... 26 May 1954

[Agora Object] P 24215: Black Glaze One-Handler Fragment

About half preserved with the full circle of the foot; trace of start of handle. Plain ring foot; span within decorated with glazed circles and reddened. "Saucer Grave". 3340 Leica ... 25 May 1954

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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.