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| Margaret Crosby ... This report is a summary of the excavations taken place in 1937 as well as in 1946.
Some pottery indicate habitation in the area from the Geometric period. Two shallow graves of the 6th and 5th centuries ... 27 May-21 Jun 1946 |
| Margaret Crosby ... The area signified as Section Χ lays outside the Agora proper and no signs of any public buildings were found. The area seems to have been used for private houses from the end of the 6th c. B.C. Apart ... 25 Jan-18 May 1937 |
Conical.
Pierced at top. Incuse rectangle on bottom. Cistern. Leica ... 27 March 1937 |
Top only preserved; vertical handle missing.
Round nozzle, pierced knob on side; sunken top with a groove around its edge.
Badly flaked black glaze. Mold made.
Reddish-buff clay.
Type XII (early spreading ... 17 February 1937 |
End of nozzle missing.
Raised base, concave beneath. No handle, cornucopia knob on side. Rays on top, separated from narrow rim by two grooves.
From a very crisp mould.
Unglazed (?).
Buff clay.
Type XVIII ... 23 March 1937 |
Part of top.
Heavy looped garlands on rim.
Part of side knob preserved.
Black glaze on outside.
Gray clay.
Type XVIII of Corinth collection, type 50D of Agora collection. Cistern. Leica, LXIX-37, LIX-15 ... 31 March 1937 |
Very fragmentary; bottom entirely missing.
Very narrow rim with two grooves; concave discus with relief; volutes at side of nozzle; triangular end of nozzle with sharp angles.
Relief design is of standing ... February-April 1937 |
| Shoulder piece from storage amphora [Max.Dim. 0.127].
Dipinto in small cursive letters in black:
Pinkish-brown clay with white bits.
ADDENDA Many fragments found in mending; amphora made up in plaster, ... 29 March 1937 |
Few pieces missing. Shape similar to P 11883 (Χ 918); narrower in proportion to its height. Two shallow grooves on top of rim.
Soft pinkish-gray clay with brown bits in it. Cream-colored slip. Deposit ... February-April 1937 |
| About one-third of side with rim and bit of floor preserved.
Flat bottom; spreading sides; horizontal rim with three grooves; one horizontal twisted handle, pressed onto underside of rim, preserved.
... February-April 1937 |
| a) Part of rounded bottom and lower side wall.
b) Upper side wall, which curves in gently to plain slightly flaring rim.
Gritty red-brown clay. Coated inside and out with thick white paint.
Three more ... February-April 1937 |
| About half restored in plaster.
An irregular half sphere cut off at the top in antiquity.
Buff to red-buff clay. Reddish surfacing on outside.
Cf. Agora XXXIII, no. 77. Deposit list says level .1 but ... February-April 1937 |
| Full profile preserved; missing pieces restored in plaster. Base ring; low bulging body; two horizontal ridged strap handles, just above point of greatest diameter; wide flange for cover just below low ... February-April 1937 |
| Full profile preserved; about one-third restored in plaster. Rim with flat top surface, separated by deep groove from side wall; one horizontal strap handle on shoulder. Wide spiral band in black on outside ... February-April 1937 |
| About half restored in plaster. Short cylindrical bottom; widely flaring sides with inturned rim; sides and bottom separated by narrow collar.
Clay light to reddish-brown. Some pieces burned. Broken and ... February-April 1937 |
The handle with a very small part of the slightly flaring rim preserved. Long cylindrical handle with hollow flaring end.
Gritty gray clay. Deposit list says level .1 but depth indicates .2 Cistern. Leica, ... February-April 1937 |
| Flat disk with hole surrounded by a groove in center.
Just inside of preserved edge, a short ridge with two holes beside it. Grooves continue line of ridge.
Fragment b) is a non-joining rim piece with ... February-April 1937 |
| Rolled handle mended from two pieces, probably from a wide-mouthed scoop-shaped pot; handle complete with lower attachment, and start of spread to mouth at upper attachment. Small hole pierced through ... 11 March-1 April 1937 |
| a) Female head and part of neck; tip of nose broken. Head turned up and to right. Hair combed back in melon fashion, with braid or wreath about back of head. Top of head roughly finished.
b) The right ... a) (Χ 51) 9 February 1937,
b) (Χ 51) 12 February 1937,
c), d) (Χ 437) 26 March 1937 |
| Head, wearing a diadem, broken at neck. Plump features, not very carefully worked.
Joins the body of a standing boy later found, S 828 c (Χ 437), which belongs to the sculpture group S 828.
Island marble ... 12 February 1937 |
| Chip missing from back of head, smooth-finished surface at bottom of neck with hole for attachment.
Head of a woman with hair parted in the center and knotted low at back, below the fillet. On each side ... 26 March 1937 |
Sharply bent knee and part of lower leg. Broken at bottom.
Smooth cut surface at back of knee.
Island marble. Deposit list says level .1 but depth indicates .2 Cistern. Leica ... 26 March 1937 |
Long handle.
Rectangular stamp with amphora in centre. Finished Cistern. vaseII
[---] Leica ... 24 March 1937 |
| The jar mended up largely complete from sherds; missing toe; a few fragments from neck and wall restored in plaster; no groove. Joined with whole handle with part of shoulder (was SS 07314).
Capacity: ... 31 March 1937 |
Head and part of back of figure.
Draped, and with a hood over her head.
Extremely coarse gouged style. White wash; traces of red paint.
Late Roman. Cistern, lower fill. Leica ... 13 February 1937 |
| Head of a youth wearing heavy ivy wreath with pendent leaves and berries.
Broken at the neck.
Traces of pink paint on wreath.
Gray to brown clay.
ADDENDA: Two large fruits under thick bound wreath. Cistern, ... 12 February 1937 |
| The hair parted in center and then brought up on back of head.
A diadem worn across top of head.
White slip preserved on face and neck. Traces of red paint on hair; of gold on diadem.
Soft buff clay. Cistern ... 27 March 1937 |
| Mended from two pieces (T 1412, T 1413); broken all sides.
Large face with heavy beard and moustache, and hair crowned by a wreath of leaves which rises above it against a plain background.
Much of white ... 29 March 1937 |
Piece of hair with a wreath of leaves behind it against background.
Blue paint between leaves of crown; pink on front band of crown.
It is joined with fragment T 1412. Cistern. Leica ... 31 March 1937 |
| Mixed ... Margaret Crosby ... 801 992 ... 1937 |
Baskets 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C. |
Hermione ... Grandjean, Groups I, II.
[Grandjean, p. 43 (emission 11).(N 19:1)] fragment Head of Demeter l., wearing wheat wreath. E-P Torch; all in wheat wreath ... second quarter 4th century B.C. |
Black glaze and finer unglazed or part glazed wares ... 11 February-29 March 1937 |
lamps and unguentaria. 3 unguentaria removed for sampling 20 April by SIR, AS 1029-1031. |
Varia: interesting or significant bits and oddities. |
Cooking pots. Resorted 1997, SIR. |
Coarse wares, chiefly rims and bases except amphoras and cook-pots. Resorted 1997, SIR. |
Terra-cotta antefixes, loom-weights. |
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