[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] L 3502: Lamp

Intact. Watch-shaped lamp on high base. Pierced lug at one side. Broad scraped groove around filling hole. Dull black glaze. Type IX (clamshell, wheel made) of Corinth collection, type 29A of Agora collection ... 9 June 1938

[Agora Object] P 13371: Saucer

Complete save for a small piece of floor and chips. Shallow saucer with furrowed rim and ring foot. Dull streaky black to brownish glaze on floor inside. Pit, layer I, black fill. Leica ... 9 June 1938

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[Agora Object] P 13372: Cup: West Slope

Much missing; restored in plaster. Moulded base and deep egg-shaped body with plain rim. Band handles with leaf thumb-rests. A scraped groove below the handle zone and one around the foot; a plain groove ... 9 June 1938

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[Agora Deposit] R 18:1: Pyre

Small pit (in Layer I) = Grave ("Pyre") Identified as pyre by SIR. Pottery and burning ("pit filled with black") in pit slightly west of Panathenaic Road, dug into layer I (lot AA 180, much earlier 6th ... 275-250 B.C.