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| 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 |
The lip flares and was fitted with a ledge to receive a lid.
Decorated on the outside with horizontal rows of dots applied "en barbotine".
Coarse clay fired gray and red. Very thin fabric. Pithos. Leica, ... 1932 |
| Chip missing. Small, slightly convex lid with high central knob. Decorated with bands of white and black paint.
Gritty pinkish-buff clay. Deposit list says level .2 but depth indicates .3 Cistern, abandoned ... 3 April 1937 |
| Full profile preserved; part of wall and rim missing. Restored in plaster. Small flat bottom; body, narrow below, swells somewhat above and then draws in to small flaring lip set off on outside by ridge ... 7 April 1937 |
| In relief on the outside, overlapping petals, and the bottoms of big leaves. From a shallow bowl or kantharos.
Dull brownish glaze outside; red inside.
Cf. P 19377.
ADDENDA GRE calls it "Megarian" and ... 9-12 June 1935 |
Two small wall fragments. Decorated with small dots in relief, perhaps garland and rosette pattern.
Thin red-brown micaceous clay, black on upper part outside.
Fabric and shape apparently similar to ... February-April 1937 |
| a) Bit of shoulder and concave rim with out-turned lip. Base of handle attachment on outside of rim suggests a horizontal strap handle.
Thin hard buff to brown clay. Black to gray wash on inside, splashes ... 9-12 February 1937 |
| A single fragment preserves complete circle of neat flaring ring foot, and immediately adjacent parts of body. A small open bowl. Painted at center of floor, a white circle between two red ones.
Buff ... 11 May 1939 |
From the side of a pot with keeled rim. On the upper wall, the front part of a cow in relief, left; at the left edge, a pair of legs(?).
Pinkish-buff clay, metallic brown to black glaze on outside; dull ... 15 April 1949 |
| Base for open pot. Two joining fragments preserve about two-thirds of ring foot and attached floor.
Medallion at center of floor; rosette composed of pointed leaves in outline, in brown glaze, with a ... 24 June 1949 |
| Two non-joining fragments:
a) Lower wall and part of flat bottom. Wall decorated by festoons of applied dots.
b) Part of wall with applied dots.
Micaceous orange clay with gray core.
Cf. Agora V, no ... 8 June 1936 |
| Two non-joining fragments.
a) Preserves part of an edge; flares out to a moulded rim with an offset below on outside.
b) Broken all around. Nearly vertical wall, slightly convex below, slightly flaring ... May-June 1947 |
Cistern on the lower south slope of Kolonos Agoraios; dumped filling, second half of first century after Christ. Coins:
9 June 1937 #3
11 June 1937 #1-#8 ... 50-100 A.D. |
Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C. |
| 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. |
Filling of a well on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus, dug early in the 1st c. B.C. [construction fill]; in use into the the 2nd c. A.D.[well fill] (H Ms.) No apparent stratification.
Hellenistic ... 2nd c. A.D. |
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. |
| 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. |
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C. |
| 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. |
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