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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 3643: Jug: Blister Ware and Ribbed

Mended from three pieces; part of the lip missing. Flat bottomed jug with dome-like, almost hemispherical profile; narrow neck, wide flaring, almost horizontal lip. One vertical handle. The body decorated ... 25 April 1934

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[Agora Object] P 4700: Jug with Incised Decoration

Squat jug. Handle and bottom missing. Flat bottom, very squat body with narrow neck, flaring lip and one vertical strap handle, lip to shoulder. Whole body decorated with fine vertical incisions. Poor ... 20 February 1935

[Agora Object] P 6280: Black Glaze Jug

Flat bottomed. Squat rounded body with narrow neck. Mouth and handle missing. Somewhat metallic black glaze. Cistern. Lower, Hellenistic fill. Leica PD 1091-9 ... 22 May-6 June 1935

[Agora Object] P 12033: Jug

Small jug, nearly half the bottom missing, with a small part of the wall(?); the handle broken off; a piece missing from the lip. Globular body on flat bottom; short narrow neck, flaring round mouth. Handle ... 26 February 1938

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[Agora Object] P 13500: Bowl

Intact. Small bowl with incurved sides; ring foot. Poor thin red glaze inside and partly outside. Finished Well. Leica, 97-15-25, 97-15-26, 97-15-27, 91-34-34 ... 15 June 1938

[Agora Object] P 16258: Black Glaze Oinochoe

One side of mouth and fragments of body missing; restored in plaster. Spreading trefoil mouth; narrow neck. Flat handle, slightly concave on outer face. Roundish body. Ring foot. Light buff clay; dull ... 12-15 May 1939

[Agora Object] P 17032: Black Glaze Jug

Intact save for most of flaring rim and chips from ring foot. Wide squat body; ring foot; vertical strap handle. Dull black glaze over all. Cf. Olynthus V, pl. 171, no. 806. Cistern. 1128, 2340 Leica ... 9-17 June 1939

[Agora Object] P 21327: Oinochoe Fragment

Preserved to below the shoulder. Partly restored in plaster. Plump body; narrow neck; offset bell-mouth with plain rim, pinched together for pouring; broad lightly grooved band handle from offset. Two ... 12 April 1951

[Agora Object] P 24802: Lekythos

[Originally identified as oinochoe.] Mended from two pieces. Most of mouth, small holes on body, chips from foot missing. Body dented. Flaring ring foot with flat resting surface; squat body; bell-shaped ... 9 June 1955

[Agora Object] P 24936: Aryballos

[Originally identified as squat jug.] Intact except minor chips. Angular profile; flat underside; strap handle. Brown-black glaze much flaked. Tiled well. Context of 200-160 B.C. Leica PD 1091-8 ... 17 June 1955

[Agora Deposit] B 20:2: Drawshaft

Filling in a cistern chamber in the area west of the Areopagus. Main dumped fill of 2nd. c. B.C., with small amount of later material in uppermost 1.00m. A connecting passage contained some material of ... 2nd. c. 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.

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[Agora Deposit] F 17:3: Well

Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE). Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision ... 350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] G 5:3: "Bone Well"

Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth. The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585. Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs. The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] G 12:6: Rubbish Pit

Indicated as "Grave 6" in notebook but recognized as not a grave: "probably a rubbish pit" [deposit notebook summary]. Concentration of pottery, burning, animal bones, snail shells and seashells, probably ... Late 4th-early 3rd c B.C.

[Agora Deposit] N 20:6: Cistern at 60/ΙΕ

Cistern at 60/ΙΕ; bell-shaped cistern with a channel 1.65m high and 4.60m long, leading to a dead end against bedrock. This channel runs north with a slight curve to the east and looks as though it was ... Second half of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] N 21:4: Satyr Cistern

Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated. Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] O 16:3: Tiled Well at South Edge of EW Road

Tiled Well at S edge of E-W Road, 73/ΜΗ. Contemporary upper and lower fills separated by layer of sterile mud. Latest coin dates ca. 200. Koan amphora handle with stamped handle dates slightly after 200 ... 210-160

[Agora Deposit] Q 12:1: Well by Stoa Pier 3.

Well by Stoa Pier 3. Mouth was discovered in 1950 (p. 2273). Between first and second POU; no joins between the groups, which were separated by nearly sterile fill. No apparent chronological difference ... Mid-2nd c. B.C.