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| Rodney S. Young ... Excavation continued in section ΝΝ with the aim of clearing the area for the new museum. Because of the unforeseen depth of filling, the area remained unfinished.
Several features were dug and examined ... 10 Mar-3 Nov 1947 |
| Rodney S. Young ... Section ΝΝ lies at the mouth of the valley between Pnyx and Areopagus, which was the important thoroughfare from the Agora to the Pnyx and to the southern parts of the city, as well as to the Piraeus Gate, ... 26 Sep 1938-24 Jun 1939 |
| Handle and attached section of neck preserved.
Straight neck, flat wide ribbon-like handle attached at shoulder and neck below lip.
Pale greenish glass. Well. Post-Herulian fill to bottom. Destruction ... 7-10 July 1947 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Top and bottom, roughly dressed preserved, and smooth dressed back; broken at left; right side chipped along face but original edge probably preserved at back.
Shallow frame, within ... 5 May 1939 |
The center of the discus, which had swirling ribs, broken. Oak-leaves and acorns on rim, double grooved handle, unpierced. On the bottom, double almond-shaped grooves enclosing the signature above three ... 14 April 1939 |
Front part of body underneath, and end of nozzle broken away.
Double grooved handle, unpierced; herringbone on rim. Decoration of discus uncertain, possibly head of Mithras, left, between two filling holes ... 14 April 1939 |
| Preserved is the head of Athena Parthenos in relief left; broken off at neck, the nose chipped, and most of the crest of the helmet missing.
The face is carefully modelled, the iris and pupil of the eye ... 24 April 1939 |
The front part with the nozzle broken away.
On the rim, herringbone pattern and panels; on the discus bust of Athena in crested helmet left. Grooved pierced handle.
On the bottom, within two circular grooves ... 26 April 1939 |
Part of the upper body missing on one side.
Grooved pierced handle; ridged discus; grape leaves and clusters on rim.
Single circle on reverse.
Pink clay with buff surfaces.
Type XXVII of Corinth collection ... 26 April 1939 |
Globules on lower body and rim, with pseudo-volutes near base of nozzle.
Grooved handle, pierced.
On the bottom, three raised grooved dots, and two smaller dots forming a kind of clover-leaf, all within ... 28 May 1947 |
Intact.
On the discus, a stylized boukranion beside a small altar. Traces of a signature, now illegible, on the bottom.
On the rim panels, and a double circle of dots. Handle grooved and pierced.
Unglazed ... 29 May 1947 |
Mended from several pieces; fragments of rim and discus missing.
Rim, plain, with a single circle of depressed dots at the inner edge, and concentric grooves to discus. Small sharply sunken discus with ... 29 May 1947 |
Complete except for vertical handle.
Small squat lamp, the plain rim separated from the plain concave discus by three ridges. Two raised dots at throat of nozzle; end of nozzle raised: slightly higher ... 30 May 1947 |
Intact.
Typical globules on top and lower body; typical volutes at nozzle; high ridged handle.
On the reverse, the typical "alpha" in relief.
Red clay with red to black wash over all.
Type XX of Corinth ... 30 May 1947 |
Complete except for chip from nozzle.
No handle. Plain rim; plain slightly concave discus; short nozzle, its upper surface raised slightly above rim.
Reverse, low base ring simulated by grooves.
Unglazed ... 30 May 1947 |
| a) From the shoulder of a large volute krater of heavy fabric. Tongue pattern around base of neck. The upper part of a garlanded male head, left; in front, the flame of a torch added in red. Letters in ... 14 April 1939 |
Profile complete. Deep Samian A bowl on low angular ring foot, projecting slightly beyond wall. Steep concave flaring wall; keeled concave rim; traces of rouletting on the keel.
Trace of stamp at center ... 11 April 1939 |
Profile complete. Flat bottom and convex side wall of Samian A bowl with plain rim.
Plantaform stamp inside a groove-ring at center of floor. No letters visible.
Light red clay and red glaze. Brown ... 11 April 1939 |
Shallow rounded saucer, flattened at the bottom, and with plain rim rounded on top.
Good black glaze inside and on the outside to above the flat bottom. The floor much scraped. Round pit in rock. 816 ... 20 April 1939 |
| Fragment of a Western Sigillata bowl with ring foot.
One end of stamp preserved:
Fine red clay; glaze rather dull. Mixed brown fill in drain. Leica, 93-41-20 PD 1172-8 ... 17 April 1939 |
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