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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 688: Lamp Fragment

Fragment from side. Down sloping rim; bottom rising in center. Dull mottled red glaze on rim and inside; remains of transparent glaze wash on outside. Type III (plain variety) of Corinth collection, type ... August-September 1932

[Agora Object] L 2700: Lamp

About half preserved. Fragmentary. Shallow lamp with flat rim and collar vertically through the middle; two nozzles opposite each other. Thinish black glaze on rim, floor, collar and outside of nozzles ... 27-29 May 1936

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[Agora Object] L 3374: Two Nozzle Lamp

One nozzle missing, and fragment of rim and wall. Rounded bottom, hollow cone at corner of floor. Narrow down sloping rim, up-tilted nozzles opposite one another. Indifferent red to black glaze, on inside, ... 525-ca. 480 B.C.

[Agora Object] L 3694: Lamp

Fragmentary. Convex underside; large central tube; angular shoulder; flat rim, not projecting on outside. Thin black glaze on inside and on top of rim. Buff clay. Type 19A of Agora collection. Tholos ... 8 March 1939

[Agora Object] L 3999: Two Nozzle Lamp

Most of one nozzle, and fragments of floor and rim missing. Broad shallow lamp with large central cone and two spoon-shaped nozzles, opposite each other. No base. The rim, sloping gently down and in, does ... May, June 1939

[Agora Deposit] E 14:5: Unfinished Well, Well G

Found in 13/06/1935. Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 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.