icon

[Agora Publication] Hellenistic Pottery Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material

Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997

icon

[Agora Object] P 623: Black Glaze Jug

Mended from several fragments; handle and part of body and base missing. Wide, flaring ring foot; short wide neck; out-turned rim. Attic clay. Fair black glaze. Pithos. Leica, 4-327, 97-7-4(5,6) PD 1091-117 ... 22 April 1932

icon

[Agora Object] P 1087: Jug

Much mended; part of one side, and a bit of the rim, missing. Straight round neck, finished with an inward slope. Wheelmarks prominent on the outside. Buff clay. Thin purplish glaze inside only. On and ... 31 March 1932

icon

[Agora Object] P 11439: Jug Fragment: West Slope

From a small round-bodied jug with short neck and flaring round mouth; nothing of base or edge of lip preserved. Wheel grooves on lower body; scraped groove at point of greatest circumference and at base ... 13-27 February 1937

[Agora Object] P 14177: Vessel or Askos Fragment: Cooking Ware

No original edge preserved. Piece from side of round pot (cooking pot?), as wheel marks on inside show. On outside, a circular attachment, partly broken away, which looks like a ring foot, except that ... 25 May-9 June 1938

icon

[Agora Object] P 14475: Black Glaze Jug Fragment

About half of side wall and neck preserved; base and lip missing; vertical strap handle broken away. Wide neck sharply inset from almost straight wall; two sharp ridges on the shoulder so created. The ... 12 February 1937

[Agora Object] P 16647: Pitcher

Mended from many pieces; fragments of body and lip missing; one non-joining fragment. Single band handle from below lip. Wide round mouth; concave shoulder. Ring foot; rounded lip. Thin brown glaze on ... 15 May 1940

[Agora Object] P 17864: Black Glaze Oinochoe with Molded Decoration: West Slope

Fragment of body and chips from lip missing. Lower part of body made in mold for miniature Megarian bowl. Rounded base with rosette at center; then imbricated leaves. Above, flying birds; then ovules ... 19 May 1947

[Agora Object] P 18573: Black Glaze Askos: West Slope

Small fragments restored. Low flaring ring foot; round body; long wide neck. Rolled horizontal handle from shoulder to back of mouth. Around the neck, a necklace with pendents, in thinned clay paint. ... 29 September 1947

[Agora Object] P 18712: Pitcher

Intact. Broad body on small ring foot; concave shoulder continuous with wide neck; plain mouth. Handle from middle of neck to below shoulder. Brownish-buff clay; dull black glaze inside, dripped and ... May 1947

icon

[Agora Object] P 22135: Vessel Fragment with Relief Decoration: West Slope

From side of pot. Moulded nodules on almost vertical side wall. West slope decoration on shoulder: vine in white, leaves in added clay. Groove scratched through glaze just below shoulder, and at edge ... 6 March 1952

[Agora Object] P 26393: Black Glaze Jug Fragment

Handle, part of neck and part of shoulder preserved. Neck low, concave in profile; rather broad, low shoulder; two grooves at join with neck; arched band handle with ivy leaf thumb grip. Worn reddish-brown ... May, July 1957

[Agora Object] P 28082: Pitcher

Mended from numerous pieces. Fragments missing from body and rim. Completely restored. Small flat foot, slightly offset from body. Plump body, high cylindrical neck, strap handle, plain rim slightly outward-flaring ... 5-9 August 1968

[Agora Deposit] B 13:7: Well on South Slope of Kolonos Agoraios

Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Stratified deposit. Coins: 8 May 1937 #3 14 May 1937 #1 Coins from dump: 27 May 1937 #2-#9 28 May 1937 #3-#11 Subdivisions: .1=16.00-17.00m. .2=17.00-18.00m. .3=18.00-19.00m ... 3rd. c. B.C.-3rd. c. A.D.

icon

[Agora Deposit] B 19:6: Pyre in House N, Room 4

Pyre in House N, room 4 (RSY=Pyre 7), in the industrial area west of the Areopagus. Pottery, mall pieces of calcined bone, log, wood cinders, and charcoal in diamond-shaped pit in floor sequence. The pyre ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:3: Cistern at 65/KH

Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northwest room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Part of the same system as D 17:4 and D 17:5, the chambers connected by long tunnels ... 300-250 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] E 5:2: Cistern in ΛΛ

Cistern connected by tunnel to another chamber filled in Byzantine period. Small Hellenistic deposit on floor. somewhat contaminated by Byzantine fill above No stamped amphora handles later than 3rd c.; ... 250-190 B.C.

icon

[Agora Deposit] F 16:8: Menon's Cistern and Well

Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins: 5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973) 6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C.

icon

[Agora Deposit] H 16:4: Pithos

Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D. One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] K-L 18-20:1: Drain System

Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ. The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C. 2nd c A.D.

[Agora Deposit] M 18:10: Well

Well at 66/ΛΖ. Homogeneous fill. 14 stamped amphora handles. Rhodian and Knidian handles find parallels in Middle Stoa building fill. Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one ... 225-175 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] M 20:1: Cistern

Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above. Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C.

icon

[Agora Deposit] M 21:1: Komos Cistern

Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill. Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C.

[Agora Deposit] O 20:3: Well at 67/ΛΓ

Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2. Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin 28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C.