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[Agora Object] MC 373: Spindle Whorl

Concave conical top; rounded bottom. Decorated with black glaze in stripes and rows of short vertical strokes. ADDENDA Publication: early 5th c. B.C. (publication) Grave 7, find no. 18 for the day. Found ... Publication: early 5th c. B.C.

[Agora Object] MC 567: Loom Weight

Long narrow, square in section. Thicker at center than at either end. Flat on bottom, round on top, pierced near top. No glaze. Fine buff slightly micaceous clay; surface polished. Cistern, lower red fill ... 6 May 1939

[Agora Object] MC 787: Checkerboard Fragments

Two non-joining fragments from edge of slab. Front smoothly finished and incised in squares. Back smooth with three small holes along edge for attachment on fragment a) and three along the break on fragment ... 8 April 1949

[Agora Object] MC 948: Spindle Whorl

Slender concave-conical, with nearly flat bottom. Two incised lines around it half way up, and a reserved line at edge of bottom. Firm velvety glaze. Publication: ca. 500 B.C. Well A. Box 10. Late 6th-early ... Publication: ca. 500 B.C.

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[Agora Object] MC 964: Loom Weight

Conical, stamped. Loom weight stamp on upper wall, the inscription: Γ Λ Υ Κ on lower wall. Buff clay. Finished North end of terrace of Stoa of Attalos; from a disturbed area but probably from footing ... 10 August 1953

[Agora Object] MC 1122: Loom Weight

Intact. Pyramidal, with graffito. Plain at bottom with four flat sides tapering to slightly rounded top. Longer sides pierced with hole at top. Marked with an incised letter X on one side. Orange buff ... 1 July 1967

[Agora Object] MC 1127: Loom Weight

Intact. Heptagonal. Seven-sided cone shape tapering up from flat bottom. Sides bevelled in at bottom to base. Hole cut through at point 0.012 from apex. Red glazed except for base. Pocket of thrown bedrock, ... 14 August 1967

[Agora Object] MC 1129: Loom Weight

Chipped. Pyramidal. Four-sided with flat top and bottom. Pierced by hole 0.013 m. from top. Dull black glaze on upper two thirds. Pinkish buff clay. Beneath Byzantine floor west of Hieron, S.W. of S.W ... 6 July 1967