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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 672: Lamp

One side of a horizontal loop handle preserved. Double convex body, with greatest circumference below center. Bottom rises inside, flat outside. Unbridged nozzle. Thin flaked red to black glaze on inside ... August-September 1932

[Agora Object] L 3385: Lamp Fragment

Single fragment preserving nearly complete profile and part of nozzle. Flat bottom; curved sides; rim overhanging on inside, marked off by a groove around the top of the wall, and finished at its inner ... 7 April 1938

[Agora Object] L 3599: Lamp Fragment

About half preserved, with a bit of the nozzle, and one handle attachment. Bottom slightly concave; rounded profile with high shoulder; narrow slightly raised rim; horizontal strap handle. Unbridged nozzle ... 23 May-3 June 1938

[Agora Object] L 3806: Lamp

Handle and most of one wall missing. Concave bottom, broad flat floor, walls sharply rounded to plain rim. Horizontal spurred handle. Large nozzle, unbridged. Interior, nozzle, handle and edge of rim glazed ... 24 May 1939

[Agora Object] L 4700: Lamp

A single fragment preserves some of rim, floor and stubs of handle. Angular profile. Rim flat on top. Bottom concave with shallow cone towards center; horizontal handle. Dull streaky black glaze inside ... 5 May 1950

[Agora Object] L 4707: Lamp

Floor, part of wall and root of nozzle preserved. Unbridge nozzle, low raised base, slightly concave beneath. Black glaze chipped, inside, on nozzle, and apparently on upper part of wall as a small speck ... 5 May 1950

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[Agora Deposit] G 6:3: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft

A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C.