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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 415: Lamp

Shallow body, unevenly double convex, the broader upper part forming an incurving rim. Top open. Body wall pulled outward with the thumb to form an open nozzle, now chipped at the end. Vertical handle ... 11 March 1932

[Agora Object] L 669: Lamp Fragment

Fragment of a handmade lamp, with open nozzle. Most of the nozzle and part of the body preserved. Sides make sharp angle. Nozzle much blackened. No glaze. Surface worn. Coarse micaceous clay, red to grayish ... June 1932

[Agora Object] L 671: Lamp Fragment with Graffito

Back with stumps of handle and part of sides and bottom preserved. Handmade. Uneven flat bottom rising a little to a sharp angle from which the sides slope inward terminating in a slightly raised edge ... June 1932

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[Agora Object] L 1635: Lamp Fragment

About half the back part, preserved; mended from several pieces. Shallow flat-bottomed lamp, with outward sloping rim and large looped strap handle, base to outer edge of rim. Incised on rim, double zigzag ... 11 February 1935

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[Agora Object] L 1942: Lamp Fragment

High vertical strap handle. The front of the lamp is missing. Pierced by a row of holes. Micaceous pink clay with gray core. Type 2B of Agora collection. Cf. Agora IV, nos. 8-20, pp. 9-11, pls. 1, 29 ... Late 7th.-late 6th. centuries B.C.

[Agora Object] L 3386: Lamp Fragment

About half preserved, the back part, with trace of place for handle attachment. Plain bottom, plain sides, sloping steeply inwards. Unglazed. Coarse micaceous gray clay. Type 2B of Agora collection. Well ... 7 April 1938

[Agora Object] L 3497: Lamp Fragment

Fragment from the back, with heavy vertical loop handle. Flat bottom; rising rim. Coarse brown micaceous clay, much blackened. Type 2B of Agora collection. Early Attic. Pit in northeast corner of Metroom ... 24 May 1938

[Agora Object] L 4146: Lamp

Mended from two fragments; complete except for chips. Unbridged nozzle. Open top with incurving sides; flat bottom. Large vertical handle. Handmade; unglazed. Coarse brownish clay. Type C of Corinth collection, ... 15 March 1947

[Agora Object] L 4340: Lamp

Most of the body preserved; the handle, the end of the nozzle, part of the floor and a piece of the side missing. Vertical band handle; flat bottom; broad open nozzle; shallow angular body; the edge of ... 27 June-5 July 1947

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[Agora Deposit] A 17:1: Well on Lower Slope of Hill of the Nymphs

A well on the lower slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, (diam. 1.20m -water level -7m), to 7.90m. The scanty use filling at the bottom contained water jars and pitchers as well as the inventoried objects; ... Second quarter of 6th. c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F-G 12:1: Road Fills

Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench. For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] G 15:1: Well, "western extension"

Wells at 24/ΙΓ at 26/ΙΑ near the SW corner of the market square, about 10m west of the Southwest Fountain House (the party wall between them broken through in antiquity). ... Ca. 500 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] G 15:2: Well

Wells at 24/ΙΓ at 26/ΙΑ near the SW corner of the market square, about 10m west of the Southwest Fountain House (the party wall between them broken through in antiquity). Use filling middle to third quarter ... Ca. 550-525 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] H 10:2: Pit in NE Corner of Metroon Pit Η

A pit, perhaps a well, extending beneath the foundations of [Building D, the Primitive Bouleuterion] the Hellenistic Metroon. Not completely dug due to its position. A dumped filling so far as dug, apparently ... Ca. 575-525 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] J 18:4: Pit B

Thamneus' Cellar, a storage cellar on the north slope of the Areopagus. Lower filling of mid-6th c. B.C., upper filling of last quarter of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] P 8:5: Well

Well at 19/ΚΔ, beneath the west colonnade of the Square Market Building in the northeast corner of the Agora. Diameter ca. 1.25m. Water level ca. -3.50m. The construction of the well was rather careless, ... Ca. 580-560 B.C.