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[Agora Object] IL 69: Lead Curse Tablet (Defixio)

The sheet is folded into a thin rectangular packet. Traces of cement. Note that on the published photograph, the number written on the object, reads IL 68. This is incorrect. Well. Leica, 3-237 ... 22 May 1933 ... Hesperia 91 (2022), p. 134, n. 3.

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[Agora Object] IL 72: Lead Curse Tablet (Defixio)

Very loosely folded into an irregular roll. One end damaged. Brought back unrolled (1936). Eros, son of Ifigenia. Andrew Henry Feb. 2017 Well. Leica, 3-237, 6-108, 87-29-35, 87-29-36 DA 13686 ... 23 May 1933 ... -9.0 to -9.50m.

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[Agora Object] P 15107: Black Glaze One-Handler

Foot of black glazed one-handler? Incised in reserved central circle on bottom: Small early house walls, north rectangular pit. Leica PD 1153-8h, PD 1190-24 ... 15 May 1939 ... -0.30 to -0.45m.

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[Agora Object] P 26024: Pithos Lid Fragment

Section of a large flat lid; at center a lifting hole surrounded by a raised collar. Pinkish clay with many large grits. Remains of lighter surfacing. Well, upper POU. Leica, 96-3-13 ... 22 May 1957 ... -10.3--10.3m.

[Agora Object] P 26067: Mortar Fragment

About one-quarter preserved. Ornamental lug on rim and start of spout. Wide curving rim, flat base. Interior surface gritty. Pink clay. Aischines Street, cistern, north. Context ca. 375-350 B.C. 1332 ... 1 August 1957 ... -2.32--2.32m.

[Agora Object] P 27813: Vessel Fragment with Paint Decoration

Broken all around. Panels of horizontal zigzags separated by four vertical lines. Red painted decoration. Buff clay. 0.30-0.60m. below highest point of north wall. Second layer below 5th. c. B.C. Hieron ... 1 August 1967 ... Hesperia 87 (2018), p. 657, n. 107.

[Agora Object] P 27814: Vessel Fragment with Paint Decoration

From wall. Undistinguished forms separated by panels of horizontal zigzags between two vertical lines. Red painted designs. Buff clay. 0.30-0.60m. below highest point of north wall. Second layer below ... 1 August 1967 ... 0.30-0.60m. below highest point of north wall.

[Agora Object] P 27818: Vessel Fragment

Fragment of neck of vessel. Zone of six adjacent horizontal zigzags. One surviving horizontal line above; three below. Traces of three vertical lines at bottom. Buff clay; dark glaze. 0.64-1.06m. below ... 2 August 1967 ... 0.64-1.06m. below highest point of north wall.

[Agora Object] P 27821: Clay Disk

Badly chipped; cut from decorated open vessel. Outside, pattern of cross-hatching with diamonds and dots in the interstices. Double concentric circles and center dots near one edge. Glazed inside. Buff ... 2 August 1967 ... 0.64-1.06m. below highest point of north wall.

[Agora Object] P 28218: Saucer

Slightly less than half preserved; profile complete. Ring foot; rilled rim. Wheel-run groove beneath glaze near top of wall; two wheel-run grooves at top of rim which is nearly horizontal. Fully glazed ... 20 February-2 March 1932 ... -3.8--3.8m.

[Agora Object] P 781: Plate: Banded

Mended from four fragments; about half preserved, with one handle; another piece (two fragments) does not join. Ring foot; loop ribbon handle. Concentrically striped; stripes in thin streaked glaze. Underside ... 21 May 1932 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p.26, n. 55.

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[Agora Object] P 990: Black Figure Disk

Disk with slightly raised rounded rim. Owl in reddish glaze; body in profile, head in front view, the features roughly incised. Fine pinkish-buff clay. Glaze on rim mottled red to black. Lid? ADDENDA ... 13 June 1932 ... Hesperia 87 (2018), p. 336, n. 143.

[Agora Object] P 18011: Miniature Kantharos

Intact except for small chip from lip. Roughly wheelmade. Low raised base, left very rough beneath. Upper body slightly concave, to flaring rim. Vertical band handles from rim. Pinkish-buff clay, unglazed ... 28 June 1947 ... Hesperia 75 (2006), p. 5, n. 17.

[Agora Object] P 16767: Black Figure Lekythos

Mouth, neck, handle and some of body missing; restored in plaster. Shoulder with cock between ivy leaves. Body with three circumscribed palmettes with separated petals. No incision or added color. Rectangular ... 1 September 1932 ... Ca. -10.90m.

[Agora Object] P 16770: Black Figure Lekythos

Three joining fragments preserve much of body; the remainder, including rim, neck and base, restored in plaster. On front of body four upright double palmettes. White for arcs over palmettes, for row of ... 29 August 1932 ... Hesperia 62 (1993), p. 394, n. 17, pl. 82k.

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[Agora Object] P 16776: Black Figure Skyphos

Fragments missing throughout; restored in plaster. Body tapers sharply to relatively large spreading foot. In handle zone palmettes decorated with dots of added white. Reserved band at inner edge of lip ... 25 August 1932 ... Hesperia 62 (1993), p. 395, n. 26, pl. 83G.

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[Agora Object] P 17305: Vessel Fragment

Fragment of an irregular shape from a closed pot, evidently not wheelmade, the fragment apparently coming from the junction of two parts of the pot. On the outside, running dog pattern, and part of a large ... April 1939 ... Nichols (1970), pp. 9-10, n. 89, pl. 3b.

[Agora Object] P 11791: Lopas with Lid

Fragments missing from both bowl and lid; restored in plaster. Shallow bowl with convex bottom and a vertical strap handle rising from edge of plain rim. Flange for lid on inside. Domed lid with a small ... 7 June 1937 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 21, n. 30.

[Agora Object] P 12497: Well Head Fragment

Two joining fragments preserve a little less than half the rim and the full height of the neck with a raised ring at the bottom. Broad rim flat on top. Clay gray at core, reddish outside and in. Unglazed ... 20 April 1938 ... Ca. -4.00m.

[Agora Object] P 24579: Black Figure Skyphos Fragment

Rim and wall fragment. Partly draped figure reclining left, holding drinking horn; to either side a dancing female figure; lines in field. Well beneath Stoa gutter. 3780 Leica ... May-June 1954 ... Hesperia 62 (1993), p. 411, n. 67.