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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 |
| Lip of nozzle and lower part of infudibulum missing.
The top of the rim is depressed and a broad rim slopes in a concave curve to a large filling hole. Shoulder sharp and wall fairly straight, on left ... 20 July 1931 |
Handle, nozzle and part of side and bottom broken away; one side of filling hole chipped. Mold made.
Pierced lug on one side of rim. Instead of the usual filling hole, a strainer. Raised ridge about outer ... 31 March 1933 |
Mended from seven pieces; partly strengthened in plaster. The lower part of the nozzle, and fragments of sides and bottom missing.
Watch-shaped body; the side wall continues upward to form a ridge around ... 17 March 1932 |
Vertical strap handle missing; also small pieces from side and nozzle.
Trefoil ended nozzle; plain top with sunken center.
Poor red to black glaze.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type XVIII (?) of Corinth collection, ... 20 May 1935 |
The end of the nozzle broken off.
Concave rim; plain mold made.
Pierced lug at one side. A long slit on the upper surface of the nozzle.
Glaze black to red.
Type XVI (glazed variety) of Corinth collection, ... 29 May 1935 |
Large plain lamp, about half preserved.
Ring foot. Loop handle on left, lug (?) on right. Top sunken.
Mould-made. Pinkich-buff clay, black glaze, much peeled.
Type 43E of Agora collection, type XII of ... Late 3rd c. to early 1st century B.C. |
End of nozzle missing.
Low base; slightly depressed top; angular body.
Vertical band handles.
Type XII (early spreading variety) of Corinth collection, type 43D of Agora collection. Cistern. Leica, LIII-17 ... 2 June 1936 |
Nozzle, tip and band handle missing.
Plain lamp with angular body, the upper half higher than the lower, a bump-like lug on the left side at the junction of the two parts. Faintly simulated ring foot ... 11 June 1936 |
Top only preserved; vertical handle missing.
Round nozzle, pierced knob on side; sunken top with a groove around its edge.
Badly flaked black glaze. Mold made.
Reddish-buff clay.
Type XII (early spreading ... 17 February 1937 |
The lower part of a lamp, with its base raised.
Plain rim and discus, the discus surrounded by a grooved ridge.
Letters on bottom, scratched before glazing.
Reddish-brown glaze.
Type 44A of Agora collection, ... 6 May 1937 |
Flat bottom, false base ring.
Three letters scratched through glaze.
Black glaze inside and out.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type XVIII (?) of Corinth collection, type 43C of Agora collection.
Cistern. Leica ... 2 March 1938 |
A single fragment preserves front of lower half, with nozzle and part of body and base.
Deep string groove at end of nozzle.
Pink to buff clay.
For lamp of type XVIII of Corinth collection, of type 43D ... 8 May 1939 |
Most of wall and rim missing.
A groove around the edge of the slightly depressed top. Low base, concave beneath.
Grayish-buff clay.
Worn black glaze.
Type XII (wheelmade, early spreading) of Corinth ... June 1933 |
Parts of handle, nozzle and fragments of body and base missing.
Early spreading variety, wheelmade.
Black glaze, worn.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type XII of Corinth collection, type 43D of Agora collection ... 9 April 1949 |
Complete except for handle and end of nozzle.
Slightly raised concave base with inner raised circle. Angular side walls, bottom half slightly convex. Plain concave top. Partially pierced lug for wick pin ... 7 May 1971 |
Complete except for end of noozle.
Raised concave base with raised inner circle.
Angular side walls, bottom half slightly convex. Sunken rim around filling hole. One unpierced lug. No handle.
Peeling black ... 7 May 1971 |
| Report on sorting of pottery, August 1951, by H.S. Robinson [nb p. 3666].
Cistern discovered and dug to 1.60m., vi/10/36; dug to bottom iv/22/37-v/6/37. Diam. At mouth 0.26m.; neck begins to widen out ... 1st. c. B.C. to post-Herulian |
| Cistern in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Simple, flask-shaped chamber withdraw-shaft; no tunnels. Mouth cut away in Byzantine times. Lower filling, 3rd c. B.C. Coins:
25 ... 25-30 April 1947 |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C. |
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