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[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

[Agora Object] P 5986: Black Glaze Fish Plate

High ring foot. Downward-turned rim, none of which is preserved; groove around edge of rim and around shallow depression at center, the glaze scraped away in both. Restored in plaster. Rather metallic ... 9-15 May 1935

[Agora Object] P 6240: Black Glaze Fish Plate with Graffito

Similar to P 6239 but smaller. Most of the rim broken away. Incised on the floor: Highly metallic black glaze fired brownish-purplish inside stacking ring. ADDENDA P 6239: Large shallow fish plate ... 22 May-6 June 1935

[Agora Object] P 8406: Black Glaze Fish Plate

Ring foot and down-turned rim. Scraped grooves around edge of rim and central depression. Glaze black to red; traces of stacking in kiln on floor, and inside foot. Cistern system shaft. Leica ... 24-27 March 1936

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[Agora Object] P 11445: Black Glaze Fish Plate

About half the floor and rim missing; restored in plaster. Sharply down-turned rim; deep central depression; a scraped groove just inside the rim, and another, broader, around the depression. Glaze somewhat ... 13-27 February 1937

[Agora Object] P 11813: Black Glaze Fish Plate

Restored in plaster; there is no direct join between the rim and base fragments, and the plate as restored may be somewhat too deep. Heavy base ring; downturned rim with scraped groove on underside and ... February-April 1937

[Agora Object] P 12056: Black Glaze Fish Plate

Full profile preserved, most of rim missing. Base ring, down-turned rim, small central depression; groove around depression and at top of rim. Glaze fired red-brown on floor and bottom due to stacking ... 1 March 1938

[Agora Object] P 21012: Black Glaze Fish Plate Fragment

Less than half preserved with complete profile. Ring foot; relatively deep; overhanging rim. Pinkish-buff clay, black glaze. Middle Stoa, building fill, undisturbed. Leica ... 1-2 June 1933

[Agora Object] P 23743: Black Glaze Fish Plate Fragment

Two joining fragments preserve part of foot and floor with central depression. Massive ring foot; scraped groove around depression. Dull black glaze with metallic splotches. Present surface of Hellenistic ... 29 March 1954

[Agora Object] P 26262: Black Glaze Fish Plate with Graffito

Profile preserved, but much of floor and rim missing. Curving downturned rim; scraped groove at edge of central depression and at outer edge of floor. High ring foot. Graffito inside ring foot: Black ... 1957

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[Agora Object] P 28627: Black Glaze Fish Plate Fragment

Less than half preserved; mended from four pieces; full profile preserved. Ring foot; shallow bowl; sharply downturned rim. Recessed area in middle of floor, two scraped grooves with miltos near rim. ... 7 May 1971

[Agora Deposit] D 11:2: Drawshaft

Drawshaft of a complex cistern system with two chambers (D 11:4, E 11:1), two more drawshafts (D 11:3, D 12:2), and two blind tunnels, all of which were filled later than D 11;2. Coins: 26 March 1936 #1 ... 300-215 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.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:1: Cistern

Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C. Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:3: Drawshaft, "Kybele Cistern"

Cistern-shaft at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic. Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment

[Agora Deposit] F 5:1: Cistern

Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned. Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C.

[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.

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[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.

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[Agora Deposit] N 19:1: Cistern

Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] N 20:7: Cistern at 67/ΙΗ

At 67/ΙΗ, at the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Cistern with drawshaft, 4.60m deep. The drawshaft had been cleared to bottom in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and some of the fill in the main ... Most second half of 3rd c. B.C.