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[Agora Publication] Greek Lamps and Their Survivals

Howland, R. H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of “closed deposits” at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B.C ... 1958

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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 1574: Lamp Fragment

Mended from many pieces; nozzle, handle and part of rim missing. Simulated ring foot, watch-shaped body enclosed in vertical rim; vertical strap handle. Cornucopia-shaped knob on one side of upper body ... 15 March 1934

[Agora Object] L 2939: Lamp in Iron Holder

Handleless moulded lamp, with dolphin lug; black glaze. Rusted into an iron lamp holder. Type XI of Corinth collection, type 43A of Agora collection. Cistern. Leica, LIII-15 ... 13 April 1937

[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 4029: Lamp

Handle missing; a chip from shoulder. Watch-shaped body on false ring foot; flattened rim set off from wall by low ridge. Long nozzle rounded at end. Unpierced lug at side. Vertical strap-handle. Dull ... 9 May 1940

[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

[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] 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.