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[Agora Publication] Hellenistic Pottery Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material

Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997

[Agora Object] P 50: Plastic Attachment: Mask

Plastic attachment for twisted handle. Mask has long nose, crudely rendered mouth. On the small remaining pot body fragment are stripes of clay applied as paint. Attic clay; black glazze. 383 Leica ... 13 July 1931

[Agora Object] P 519: Amphora: West Slope

Handles from neck to angle of body, broken away. Rim somewhat chipped. Small squat amphora with flaring profiled rim; angular body on heavy low ring foot. Decoration in alternate white and clay-colored ... 16 April 1932

[Agora Object] P 625: Amphora: West Slope

Complete save for one handle and chip at base. Low conical foot, grooved at top and center; rivet-like knobs on both sides of upper handle attachments, below flaring rim; twisted handles terminating in ... 22 April 1932

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[Agora Object] P 1443: Vessel Fragment with Plastic Attachment: West Slope

Fragment from a large open vase with west slope decoration. The decorated band marks the line of the shoulder which curves in sharply. Above a broad scraped groove is a pattern of diminishing squares, ... 27 February 1933

[Agora Object] P 9285: Amphora: West Slope

Base ring; flaring lip; handles cylindrical in section. On shoulder, degenerate bead and reel in thinned clay and white paint, almost disappeared; on neck, pointed leaves also separated by white lines ... 1 March 1937

[Agora Object] P 10022: Miniature Amphora: West Slope

Flaring ring foot and lip; band handles. Incised grooves at handle attachments and base of neck. Traces of ivy tendrils on front of neck. Thinned clay paint for leaves; white for stems. Decoration in ... 23 April 1937

[Agora Object] P 14417: Miniature Amphora: West Slope

One handle and about half of side and lip missing. Restored in plaster. Ring foot; broad body with angular shoulder; high neck; flaring lip with vertical face; rolled handles, from below lip to shoulder ... 9-12 February 1937

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[Agora Object] P 23080: Amphora with Plastic Attachment: West Slope

Lower part of a twisted handle with a mask at lower attachment. Pinkish-buff clay. Hellenistic fill over water basin north of Drain B and below level of its bottom. Boxes 136, 137, 138. 2077 Leica, 89-21-32(31) ... 20 April 1953

[Agora Object] P 23605: Plastic Attachment: Head

From base of a twisted handle of a West Slope amphora. Plastic head. Dull modelling surrounded by band of thinned clay. Firm dull black glaze. Trench for foundation of south stylobate of Square Building, ... 27 August 1953

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[Agora Deposit] A 14:1: Early Roman Well

Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson). "Not a useful well" HSR. Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR) Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C. Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D. Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine.

[Agora Deposit] G 14:2: Well

Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C. 100-70 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] H 16:4: Pithos

Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D. One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] M 20:1: Cistern

Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above. Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] M-N 18:1: Cistern at 75/ΜΓ

Cistern at 75/ΜΓ connected with cistern N 18:3 by tunnel. Only coin is Bioiotian dating between 220 and 197. Only indications of date are 1st c. lamps, two long-petal bowls, and fragments of early Roman ... 1st. c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] Q 9:4: Foundation of South Stylobate of Square Building

Trench for foundation of south stylobate of Square Building (between Piers 12-13) ... Late 3rd-early 2nd c. B.C.