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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

[Agora Object] L 677: Lamp Fragment

Left side preserved, with start of nozzle. The horizontal rim has a narrow raised band round the outer edge and another round the filling hole. On this lamp, the upper part of the body is concave, flaring ... August-September 1932

[Agora Object] L 2196: Lamp Fragment

About one-quarter of body, with nozzle-hole in wall, preserved. Flat bottom. Concave lower body at an angle to upper wall. Raised mouldings around inner and outer edges of flat rim. Black glaze on lower ... 2 April 1936

[Agora Object] L 3326: Two Nozzle Lamp

Most of the nozzles and much of the rim and wall missing. Two-nozzled lamp with a rising tube in the middle. The broad flat rim has a shallow channel in it. Flat on under side. Ridged rim. Black glaze ... 25 February 1938

[Agora Object] L 3968: Lamp Fragment

About a third of the lamp, including start of nozzle, preserved. Bottom flat; wall has two faces, oblique-angled to each other, each face slightly concave; rim has two ridges, one about the hole and one ... 4 May 1939

[Agora Deposit] F 19:5: Unfinished Well Shaft

A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C.

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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.