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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 620: Black Glaze Juglet

Mended from many fragments; handle, nearly half of rim and several pieces from body, missing. Flat bottom; round body; round mouth; small flaring lip. Scraped groove at junction of body and rim; shallow ... 22 April 1932

[Agora Object] P 3364: Black Glaze Jug

Handle, much of lip, and side wall missing. Restored in plaster. Flat bottom, slightly inset from side wall; spheroid body; low rim, slightly outcurved. A line of glaze has been scratched away at the junction ... 3-12 March 1934

[Agora Object] P 6279: Black Glaze Jug

Ring foot; squat egg-shaped body with short slightly flaring rim applied at shoulder. No neck; one strap handle rim to point of greatest circumference. Glaze metallic black to red. Cistern. Lower, Hellenistic ... 22 May-6 June 1935

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[Agora Object] P 13688: Black Glaze Oinochoe

About half the rim and neck and small pieces of the wall missing; restored in plaster. Broad egg-shaped body on flaring ring foot; small neck-mouth; round slightly flaring lip. Broad band handle, lip to ... June 1937 June 1938

[Agora Object] P 14189: Black Glaze Jug

Neck, rim and handle completely missing. Small closed pot with flat bottom and plump body; wall begins to straighten out for neck at high preserved point; break shows lower attachment of vertical strap ... 4-12, 16-18 May 1938

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[Agora Object] P 15898: Black Glaze Jug

Handle and fragments from neck and wall missing; restored in plaster. Flaring ring foot, almost spherical body, low neck with plain everted lip; vertical strap handle from lip to shoulder. A band of five ... 11-12 May 1939

[Agora Object] P 16102: Black Glaze Jug

About half of mouth and body missing; restored in plaster. Round straight-sided neck-mouth with plain lip, slightly thickened. Spheroid body, flat bottom, no foot. No trace of any handle. Dull glaze, ... 7-13 April 1932

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[Agora Object] P 18471: Pitcher

Mended from several pieces; about one-third missing at the back, including the handle except for the lower attachment. Restored in plaster. Eggy body on low flat base; wide neck; round mouth finished with ... 1 August 1947

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[Agora Object] P 18709: Black Glaze Pitcher

Mended from many pieces; part of wall and great part of rim missing. Restored in plaster. Deep ovoid body on ring foot; out-turned rim; vertical handle from rim. Black glaze over all; worn outside. Komos ... May 1947

[Agora Object] P 20149: Miniature Saucer

Complete, except for chip from rim. Roughly wheel made, with low base, shallow convex wall, plain rim. Unglazed; traces of burning. Finished Room 2, west of street, Pyre 12, late 4th. c. 1814 Leica ... 20 April 1949

[Agora Object] P 22947: Jug

Half of mouth, half of upper part of body and handle missing; cracked. Flat bottom; greatest diameter of body below middle; plain rim, flaring upward; vertical band handle from rim. Pinkish-buff clay ... 17 March 1953

[Agora Object] P 26153: Black Glaze Jug

Mended from many fragments; handle and much of body missing. High ring foot; spherical body; small round mouth. Dull black glaze except towards foot. Well. 1288 Leica ... Summer 1957

[Agora Object] P 26266: Black Glaze Jug

Part of rim and wall missing; much mended. Small flattened bottom; rounded walls, the greatest diameter near the bottom; band handle rising from narrow flaring rim. Glaze firm inside, worn and chipped ... 1957

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[Agora Deposit] A 18-19:1: Ostrakon Area

Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] C 17:2: Pyre North of House G

North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13). Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 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] F 15:2: Cistern

A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493). Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] F 19:6: Well

Unfinished well-shaft with debris filling (apparently of the Sullan sack), on the lower NW slopes off the Areopagus. Abandoned due to poor quality of bedrock. Three closely contemporary fills, considered ... End 2nd c. B.C.-second quarter 1st c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] G 5:3: "Bone Well"

Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth. The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585. Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs. The bones from this ... Mid-2nd 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.

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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 18:10: Well

Well at 66/ΛΖ. Homogeneous fill. 14 stamped amphora handles. Rhodian and Knidian handles find parallels in Middle Stoa building fill. Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one ... 225-175 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] M 21:1: Komos Cistern

Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill. Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C.

[Agora Deposit] M-N 15:1: South Stoa II: Building Fill

South Stoa II Construction Fill. About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] O 20:2: Cistern at 70/ΛΣΤ

Cistern at 70/ΛΣΤ in the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Part of system with two chambers and well. Homogeneous fill. 13 stamped amphora handles. Latest lamp type 46 B. N 72206 (Ω-344), picked up near ... Second half of 3rd c. - Early 2nd c. B.C.