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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

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[Agora Object] P 343: Lid Fragment with Paint Decoration

The lid rises toward the center; around its outer edge are two deep grooves from which the glaze has been scraped away. Between the grooves, alternating buff and white dots. The lid is finished by a vertical ... 10 March 1932

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[Agora Object] P 3368: Pyxis Lid Fragment: West Slope

From the top of the lid. P 3373 (Γ 459), from the shoulder, also belongs. Convex top; vertical lower wall; broad rim projecting from shoulder. Around the top a wreath of wheat. Stems and leaves in white ... 3-12 March 1934

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[Agora Object] P 3690: Dish Fragment: West Slope

The lower part of a large dish on a high base, glazed inside and out. On the outside, incised lines filled with red, and rows of white dots. Underneath, a pattern composed of four yellow leaves and four ... 26 April 1934

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[Agora Object] P 4141: Bowl Fragments with Paint Decoration

Seven fragments, decorated in white and buff on red glaze. For shape cf. P 4159 and P 529. No two of the pieces come certainly from the same pot, though a) and b) probably belong together. a) Wreath, ... 21 April 1934

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[Agora Object] P 5639: Bowl: West Slope

Bowl on high ring foot, with short rim, slightly turned in. Inside foot, 8-armed cross alternating white and clay-colored paint. Two grooves around base. On body, ivy wreath, the leaves in clay-color, ... 10 May 1935

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[Agora Object] P 6007: Reversible Lid: West Slope

Similar to P 6006 (Γ 1607) but smaller. Restored in plaster. Inside ring foot, double cross of white and thinned clay paint; above foot, row of white dots between incised lines; on body, ivy pattern, stems ... 9-15 May 1935

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[Agora Object] P 6008: Reversible Lid: West Slope

Similar to P 6007 (Γ 1608) but smaller. Restored in plaster. Foot grooved underneath; inside foot, double cross of white and thinned clay paint. Around body above foot, double incised groove; on body thinned ... 9-15 May 1935

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[Agora Object] P 9103: Bowl with Paint Decoration

Similar to P 9102 (ΠΘ 2244), but much smaller. Restored in plaster. White blobs between double grooves above foot and below rim; wreath around body and cross under foot. Glaze red to black. Cf. P 4170, ... March-April 1936

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[Agora Object] P 10870: Bowl: West Slope

The straight upturned rim almost entirely broken away; no edge preserved. Restored in plaster. High ring foot; grooves around body below rim. On the outside, petals in terracotta paint, between rings of ... 6-9 March 1936

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[Agora Object] P 12164: Plate: West Slope

Fragments missing from floor; all of the vertical rim broken away, only a trace of the start preserved. Restored in plaster. Ring foot, grooved beneath, the groove marked by a scraped line. Flaring walls, ... 17 March 1938

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[Agora Object] P 14420: Lid Fragment: West Slope

About one-third preserved, from base of central knob to edge. Shape similar to P 14419 (Χ 976), but larger. Three grooves at outer edge of top surface, one at inner edge. Black glaze mostly gone from ... 9-12 February 1937

[Agora Deposit] D 11:1: Well

Well-shaft abandoned before use because of crumbling of rock. From top to 15.00m. a dumped fill predominantly early Roman but containing material of late 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D. A rock filled shaft ... 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D.

[Agora Deposit] D 11:4: Drawshaft

Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ. Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2. The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer: SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman

[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 15:2: Cistern

A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493). Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] H 15:2: Well

Well (Hole) at 19/Ι(ΙΑ). Collapsed well creating a hole above; mixed fill in hole, early Byzantine in well proper. Coins: 26 April 1934 #12 27 April 1934 #28 28 April 1934 #38 1 May 1934 #3 ... Early Byz.

[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.

[Agora Deposit] N 20:4: Mask Cistern

Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C. Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C.