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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 |
| Lamp with two opposite nozzles and solid projection in center of infundibulum.
Rounded body, sloping in towards top.
On rim, narrow band round large filling hole; set off from body by deep unglazed groove ... 18 April 1932 |
Two fragments from very large lamp.
One fragment preserves most of one side of body, with start of nozzle and handle.
Narrow rim, sloping inwards, set off from nearly vertical-sided body by deep groove ... 20 February 1932 |
End of nozzle broken off, and knob at left side chipped away.
A shallow groove round the outer edge of the broad, nearly flat top.
Unglazed outside with fine self slip; black glaze inside, and some spilled ... 4 April 1933 |
| Upper part of collar and one nozzle broken off. Three nozzles chipped.
Low ring base; groove around outer edge of plain narrow rim.
Brownish black glaze, somewhat peeled.
Type VIIA of Corinth collection, ... 26 March 1936 |
| Body mended from many pieces; complete except for fragments of top, and chips. Lid complete except for tip, and chips.
Deep bodied lamp on high base; walls nearly vertical; broad rim slightly insloping, ... 5 April 1937 |
| Lamp with basket handle and filling spout.
Low base and vertical cylinder through the middle; groove around outer edge of flat rim. Groove around edge of rim.
Basket handle (missing) from back to base ... 16 May 1937 |
Intact.
Flat bottom; nearly vertical sides; broad rim, slightly down sloping. Pierced knob at side.
Red glaze inside only.
Soft pinkish-buff clay.
Type VIII (conventional type) of Corinth collection, ... 8 June 1938 |
Intact except for chip from lip.
Similar to L 3536 (Ω 855) but with neatly made base, concave below and with a groove at the outer edge of the rim.
Outside slipped; inside dull black glaze.
Buff clay ... 8 June 1938 |
Nozzle preserved practically entire.
On top of nozzle at junction with body, around opening 0.013m. in diameter, which has a high neck or collar around it.
The nozzle is that of a lamp of type VI or VII ... 11-17 May 1938 |
Base, hollow central cylinder, one stubby nozzle and some of sides preserved.
Cylinder projects well above narrow flat rim.
Black glaze somewhat flaked.
Type 27A of Agora collection. Cistern, lower fill; ... 13 May 1939 |
The heavy raised base and the vertically pierced conical cone preserved; walls entirely missing.
The top of the cone is finished with a rounded projecting knob.
Black glaze considerably chipped, all over ... 12 June 1939 |
| Mended from many pieces; small bits missing.
High base, slightly concave beneath and finished with a raised disk at center; flat top with a groove around the outer edge; pierced lug.
Black glaze inside ... 1 August 1947 |
| Complete.
Low base and flat rim grooved around outer edge. Pierced lug at one side; no handle.
Black glaze inside only.
Surface much burned.
Type VIIIB of Corinth collection, type 25D of Agora collection ... 29 September 1947 |
Part of central tube broken, otherwise intact.
Raised base; short nozzle flat on top; wide central opening. Groove on rim.
Black glaze, much flaked.
Type 27A of Agora collection. Square Building, Construction ... 2 August 1949 |
From bottom of large lamp with hollow tube in center. Deep groove on bottom.
Black glaze inside and out, except for bottom, which has a thin glaze wash.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type 26A of Agora collection ... 22 June 1950 |
| Base and most of tube preserved.
Beveled base, partly unglazed. Hollow tube.
Metallic black glaze.
Gray clay.
Type 27A of Agora collection. Catalogued June 1979. South chamber, lower fill. From box 195 ... 10 February 1932 |
A well toward the south end of Kolonos Agoraios. Period of use fill dated to ca. 325-260 B.C. and upper fill dated to ca. 250-225 B.C. in Agora XXX.
Diameter 1.10m, water level 6.90m.
Kernoi and many lead ... Ca. 325-260 B.C. |
| 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. |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C. |
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. |
Cistern (diameter 0.90m) with two channels; the fill of the cistern proper, below the scant upper (Byzantine) deposit, appears to have been dumped all at the same time, to 325-275 B.C. Notebook says "all ... 325-275 B.C. |
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. |
Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C. |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C. |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C. |
Tiled well, ca. 30m south of the Tholos. Associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary ... 325-260 B.C. |
Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C. |
Cistern-system west of the Stoa of Zeus. Two chambers connected by a tunnel, each with two fills. Lower fill in south chamber contemporary with upper fill in north chamber, at the end of the 4th c. B.C ... Ca. 375-160 B.C. |
| Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971 |
| 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. |
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. |
A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on the north slope of the Areopagus. Curbed with rough stones.
Filling of a small shallow well which contained nothing from the POU and since no water was ... Ca. 350-320 B.C. |
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. |
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