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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

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[Agora Object] L 452: Lamp Fragment

Bottom and right side of body broken away. No handle. Flat horizontal rim, with two grooves near outer edge; rather small oil hole. Very deep body with vertical sides. Deep, broad nozzle; flat on top ... 14 March 1932

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[Agora Object] L 535: Lamp: Inscribed

Body, nearly vertical sided; name scratched along right side. Narrow rim, sloping; set off from body by scraped groove. Long, deep nozzle; the first four letters of the name repeated, scratched in the ... 18 April 1932

[Agora Object] L 1427: Lamp

The end of the nozzle broken away; otherwise intact. High straight sides rounding below into a flat bottom; no base. Flat top with central filling hole; two grooves near the outer edge. Broad flat-topped, ... 350-300 B.C.

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[Agora Object] L 1521: Lamp

Intact save minor fractures. Flat top, with double groove near outer edge. Broad, flat topped nozzle. Straight sides. Nearly flat bottom with single groove. Black glaze except on part of bottom. Type ... 350-300 B.C.

[Agora Object] L 1586: Lamp Fragment

Nozzle and about one-third of the body missing. Shape similar to L 1427 and L 1521 (high straight sides rounding below into a flat bottom; no base. Flat top with central filling hole; two grooves near ... 4-8 May 1934

[Agora Object] L 1587: Lamp

Nozzle and part of body missing. Rim slopes gently inwards to central filling hole. Shallow groove at outer edge. Straight sides, rounding into nearly flat bottom. Gray to black glaze. Bottom unglazed ... 13-18 April 1934

[Agora Object] L 1656: Lamp

Part of nozzle missing. Flat bottom, nearly straight side-wall, flat rim grooved around outer edge. No handle. Pinkish-buff clay; black glaze, peeled. Type 23D of Agora collection, type VI (Inkwell variety) ... 350-300 B.C.

[Agora Object] L 1657: Lamp

The right side, and all the top, missing. Convex side wall, flat bottom; short nozzle flat on top; large wick hole. The base of the nozzle suggests a flat rim. Attic clay, rather metallic black glaze ... Late 3rd.-4th. century A.D.

[Agora Object] L 2230: Lamp

Intact. Flat rim with shallow double groove around outside. High vertical walls; bottom flat, except for groove. Dull black glaze, much flaked. Type VI (inkwell variety) of Corinth collection, type 23D ... 7 April 1936

[Agora Object] L 2243: Lamp

Intact except for chips. Flat-bottomed handleless lamp with broad flat rim and high vertical walls. Black glaze much pitted. Traces of stacking on rim. Attic clay. Type VI (inkwell variety) of Corinth ... 9 April 1936

[Agora Object] L 3398: Lamp

End of nozzle slightly broken and a few chips missing. No handle, or knob. High base, slightly concave beneath. Wall broad below; narrow rim surrounded by a broad scraped groove. Good glaze, not covering ... 13 May 1938

[Agora Object] L 3566: Lamp

Handle, end of nozzle and fragments of body missing. Raised base; rounded wall; horizontal band handle; scraped groove at edge of rim. Fairly black glaze, chipped. Type VIIA of Corinth collection, type ... 11-17 May 1938

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[Agora Object] L 5158: Lamp

Broken but almost complete. Vertical wall; rim sloping gently inward; bottom slightly concave; stubby nozzle and lightly run groove around outer edge of rim. Glaze red to black and flaked. Type 23D of ... 24 May 1954

[Agora Object] L 5642: Lamp Fragment

Preserved is about half of top back part of lamp. Deep unglazed groove separates body from rim. Rim down sloping. Black glaze inside and outside. Orange clay. Type 25A of Agora collection. Cf. Agora ... 21 July 1970

[Agora Deposit] C 12:2: Well

A well on Kolonos Agoraios. The upper dumped filling, a heavy deposit of pottery, was separated from the lower filling of similar character by several meters of plain mud. No use filling. Coins: 8 April ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with disturbance of 250-225 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 15:3: Cistern

A small flask-shaped cistern on the lower southeast slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Lined with hydraulic cement and containing a large quantity of glazed table ware and a fair amount of coarse ware; a homogeneous ... 350-325 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 16:1: Cistern A

Cistern (diameter 0.90m) with two channels; the fill of the cistern proper, below the scant upper (Byzantine) deposit, appears to have been dumped all at the same time, to 325-275 B.C. Notebook says "all ... 325-275 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:3: Cistern at 65/KH

Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northwest room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Part of the same system as D 17:4 and D 17:5, the chambers connected by long tunnels ... 300-250 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] E 3:1: Cistern at 44/Η

Cistern with considerable dumped fill at the north foot of Kolonos Agoraios. It may have been abandoned ca. 295-295 B.C.; it will have been filled by 280 B.C. Multiple vessels share same stamps, and painted ... Ca. 325-250 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:1: Cistern

Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C. Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:6: Well H

Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level. Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 3rd-2nd century B.C and Roman date.

[Agora Deposit] F 11:2: Well

Well associated with the Tholos, with scanty use fill but primarily dumped filling. Coins: 5 April 1934 #1-#4 10 April 1934 #1-#2 11 April 1934 #1 12 April 1934 #1 18 April 1934 #1-#2 19 April 1934 #1-#5 ... Ca. 350-294 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F 12:3: Well

Associated with the Tholos. Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern. The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F 16:6: Rectangular Shaft

Rectangular shaft at northwest foot of Areopagus; dumped filling of second half of 4th c. B.C. Pit at 16/Δ-Ε recorded one time as an extension of shaft 17/Δ-Ε (see L 506 and nb.p. 395), but items from ... Ca. 325-275 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] G 12:6: Rubbish Pit

Indicated as "Grave 6" in notebook but recognized as not a grave: "probably a rubbish pit" [deposit notebook summary]. Concentration of pottery, burning, animal bones, snail shells and seashells, probably ... Late 4th-early 3rd c B.C.

[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.

[Agora Deposit] H 4:1: Pit

Shallow pit containing pottery, burning and tiny fragments of bone. A dumped group of pottery in an amphora pit, ca. 1.00 m. in diameter, 0.60m. in depth. Many tiny fragments of bone were in the fill ... 375-325 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] H 6:9: Cave Cistern

Cistern-system west of the Stoa of Zeus. Two chambers connected by a tunnel, each with two fills. Lower fill in south chamber contemporary with upper fill in north chamber, at the end of the 4th c. B.C ... Ca. 375-160 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] H 16:7: Manhole at Collapsed Poros Gutter

Includes area labeled "Deposit around collapsed section of poros gutter, road cut south of annex of SWFH." Coins: 28 June 1967 #2 13 July 1967 #1-#6 14 July 1967 #1 15 July 1967 #1 (?) Estimated Grid ... 325-275 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] J 5:1: Crossroads Well

Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins: 10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971

[Agora Deposit] O 18:2: Hedgehog Well

A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on the north slope of the Areopagus. Curbed with rough stones. Filling of a small shallow well which contained nothing from the POU and since no water was ... Ca. 350-320 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] R 13:11: Tile-Lined Well in NE room (R/18,19-13/20)

Tile-lined Well in NE room (R/18,19-13/20). Homogenous dump ... 350-325 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] S 19:3: Cistern at 17-18/ΛΑ

Cistern at 17-18/ΛΑ (Coroplasts' Dump) outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Upper and lower fill distinguished during excavation, but material from both appears to ... To ca. 330-320 B.C.