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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] L 528: Lamp

Vertical band handle broken away. Body approaching double convex. Down sloping rim, set off from body by groove. Narrow nozzle, pointed; flat on top. At the left side a pierced knob, projecting to a point ... 18 April 1932

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[Agora Object] L 554: Lamp

Mended from many fragments; incomplete. Vertical band handle broken away. Thick watch-shaped body, tending to double convex. Long, pointed nozzle, rounded on top. On the right side of the body, a small, ... 22 April 1932

[Agora Object] L 1930: Lamp

Low base. Wide flat rim sunk below top of side wall. No handle. Most of nozzle missing. Mold made. Pierced lug set well back on one side. Metallic black glaze. Grayish to buff clay. Type XVI (glazed variety) ... 22 May-6 June 1935

[Agora Object] L 3179: Lamp

The bottom, and the end of the nozzle missing. Straight side wall and flat rim, slightly inset. Pierced lug at one side. Mold made. Dull black glaze. Type XVI (glazed variety) of Corinth collection, type ... 1-8 June 1936

[Agora Object] L 3287: Lamp

Part of back and top missing. Watch-shaped body, low base ring with concave bottom surface; ridge around depression around filling hole, rounded nozzle, no trace of handle, pierced knob on left side. Metallic ... 24 February 1938

[Agora Object] L 3776: Lamp

Top of nozzle and its tip missing; also some of body; mended from two pieces. Two unpierced lugs on upper half of body. Rather high plump body with ridge around filling hole. Raised base concave beneath ... 12 May 1939

[Agora Object] L 3777: Lamp

Fragments of lower body missing. Lug on top at left; two ridges around filling hole; raised base, concave beneath. Greenish-black glaze, much worn. Type IX of Corinth collection, type 43A of Agora collection ... 12 May 1939

[Agora Object] L 4369: Lamp

Complete except for handle and chips. Mended from two pieces. Raised base; nearly straight walls; flat top slightly sunken; stubs of band handle. Unpierced lug on side. Poor black glaze over all; much ... May 1947

[Agora Object] L 4569: Lamp

Part of handle and end of nozzle missing. Early spreading variety, moulded. Pitted black glaze. Pinkish-buff clay. Type XVIII (?) of Corinth collection, type 43A of Agora collection. Cistern. Container ... 9 April 1949

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[Agora Object] L 4619: Lamp

Most of upper half preserved. Wide sunken top; nozzle flat on top, pierced lug on side. Dull black glaze, worn. Overfired gray clay. Type XII of Corinth collection, type 43B of Agora collection. Square ... 14 July 1949

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[Agora Object] L 5713: Lamp

Complete except for chips missing from raised ridge on top. Raised disk base, concave below, no handle, semi-pierced lug on left side. Flat top sunken below lamp side wall. Metallic black glaze flaking ... 1 July 1971

[Agora Deposit] B 13:1: Chamber Cistern

Part of cistern system 76/ΝΖ-76/ΝΘ-81/ΝΘ on Kolonos Agoraios with lower dumped filling of 3rd. c. B.C. and upper dumped filling of first half of 1st. c. A.D. Coins: 4 June 1936 #5 5 June 1936 #3 6 June ... 3rd. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D.

[Agora Deposit] B 13:3: Drawshaft

Cistern system on Kolonos Agoraios, shaft into south passage (81/ΝΘ). The fill again seemed to be a dumped fill; probably rather late 3rd. c. Coins: 8 June 1936 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd. c.

[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] D 17:5: Cistern

Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it. Part of same system as ... 225-100 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.

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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.

[Agora Deposit] G 14:2: Well

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.

[Agora Deposit] H 14:3: Strosis

Gravel above cobbled street surface ... Second half 2nd c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] H 16:4: Pithos

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.

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[Agora Deposit] K 18:2: Cistern on Lower North Slope of Areopagus

Cistern on lower north slope of Areopagus. Latest of thirteen amphora handles dated ca.199; twelve legible coins, the latest dating ca. 196-190. Three intrusive pieces:two semiglazed fragments and piece ... 260-190 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] M 20:4: Well

Well at 72/ΟΔ. Partially excavated to depth of 8m. Turkish fill in upper 3m. Hellenistic fill mostly of roof tiles and coarse pottery. Coin 12 February 1937 #4 (disintegrated) ... 3rd c. 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.

[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 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.

[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

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[Agora Deposit] P 6:6: Pyre

Pyre in layer 2a in Room 9 SE of Greek House δ. Sand, gravel, ashes, iron nails, carbon, some bones partially cut away by foundation trench of SYPE wall. Coin 1 July 1971 #459 ... 260-200 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] P 21:4: Cistern at 53/NE

Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron). Lower diameter 2.73m. Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C.

[Agora Deposit] R 21:2: Cistern at 37/ΛΒ

Cistern on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of Panathenaic Way; dumped filling of 1st century B.C. Bottom diameter 3.90m. Cistern with connecting draw-shaft and a dead end tunnel dates from Late Hellenistic ... 1st century B.C.