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| 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 |
Fragment of base.
On reverse, within two concentric grooves inscribed: "K Y".
Thin purplish glaze.
Dull red clay.
Type XXVIII of Corinth collection. South side. Leica ... 1931 |
Back and left side broken away. Neither handle nor knob preserved. Fragmentary.
Curving body, with greatest diameter below center.
Rim narrow, set off by groove.
Long nozzle; flat top with incurving edges; ... 1 March 1932 |
| Slightly rounding body, with pierced knob on left side.
Short nozzle, flat on top.
Broad sloping rim, set off from body by deep groove, partly scraped free of glaze.
High base, rising to a point in the ... 18 April 1932 |
Miniature lamp.
The nozzle broken away.
Two pierced lugs, no handle; small raised base; round the filling hole a broad scraped groove.
Glazed all over, inside and out, save on the groove, and on the underside ... 28 February 1933 |
Broken from stand.
The upper part of the base, a large rounded projection with a smaller one in part preserved below it, remains.
Rounding body, pierced lug, scraped groove round down sloping top.
Poor ... 11 March 1933 |
| The knob at the left broken away and the edge of the rim chipped; otherwise intact.
Glaze, poor black to reddish brown.
Type 25B of Agora collection, type VII of Corinth collection.
Cf. Agora IV, nos ... 350-275 B.C. |
Nozzle and knob chipped, and a piece of rim missing.
Low base; deep unglazed groove around rim; no handle.
Pierced lug on one side of body.
Good black glaze.
Attic clay.
Type VII (glazed variety) of ... 8 April 1936 |
Base and about one-third of body preserved. Rim and nozzle missing.
Thick bottom on a low base, rising to a cone inside. Rounded walls.
Smootly finished outside; glaze red, badly worn, inside only.
Type ... 3 June 1937 |
About a third of walls and half of rim preserved; nothing of base or nozzle.
High walls curving over to top, with scraped groove between walls and top. Pierced lug at left side.
Dull black glaze inside ... 3 June 1937 |
Upper part only preserved.
Deep rounded body, with a scraped groove colored pink setting off. Large dolphin lug, pierced, on side. No handle.
Good black glaze.
Type VIIA of Corinth collection, type 25B ... 16 May 1938 |
Intact except for chips.
Rounded body; raised base; pierced knob at side.
Glaze scratched from groove at edge of rim.
Fairly good red to black glaze, somewhat chipped.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type VIIa of ... 8 June 1938 |
Lower part of body only preserved with high raised base and thick bottom.
Red glaze on interior; exterior unglazed.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, type 25B' of Agora collection. Well. 449 Leica ... 11-17 May 1938 |
| Cracked but complete in one piece.
Large lamp on small base ring with a raised ring inside it; high globular body with extremely thick floor, rising at center.
Two deep grooves on the top around the very ... 2-3 May 1940 |
| End of nozzle missing.
No handle; pierced lug on one side; deep groove around rim; low base.
Black glaze, somewhat peeled.
Type VIIa of Corinth collection, type 25B of Agora collection.
Cf. Hesperia ... 25 July 1946 |
Intact except for small chips.
Straight-walled lamp, the bottom slightly concave, with a raised disk at the center. The top nearly flat; a single light groove, under the glaze, around its outer edge. Short ... 22 July 1947 |
Complete and typical.
Raised base; pierced lug.
The unglazed surface is somewhat worn and stained with rust; at the bottom of the nozzle, outside, is a streak of red glaze, presumably dripped from the ... 1 August 1947 |
| Complete except for small chips.
Massive round-bodied lamp on small ring foot lightly profiled underneath. Raised ridge around small down-sloping top. Pierced knob on side.
Glazed inside, around rim, on ... 16 March 1948 |
Fragment of nozzle and part of body of unglazed lamp.
Reddish glaze inside.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, type 25B' of Agora collection.
ADDENDA HAT: Type of nozzle, latish, 4th. century B.C. Cistern: ... April 1948 |
| End of nozzle and most of pierced lug at left broken away.
Broad reserved groove around filling hole; under side of foot reserved.
Firm metallic black to brown glaze, somewhat chipped.
Type VII of Corinth ... 2 August 1949 |
Some of lower body missing behind.
Pierced lug on right side; scraped groove on top. Foot reserved below.
Metallic glaze, flaked.
On top of nozzle a graffito.
Type VII of Corinth collection, type 25B ... 21 April 1950 |
Tip of nozzle missing; and chips; otherwise intact.
Small lamp with pierced lug and sunken top.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, type 25B' of Agora collection. East colonnade of Square Building, opposite ... 1 August 1950 |
Broken but essentially complete except for end of nozzle, broken in antiquity.
Pierced knob at left. The rim sharply undercut by the groove at its outer edge. Raised base.
Black glaze inside only.
Pinkish-buff ... 27 June 1951 |
Complete except for top of lug.
Globular body, thick base, added pierced lug. Base reserved. Scraped groove around filling hole.
Dull black to reddish-brown glaze.
Type 25B of Agora collection. Cistern ... 9 August 1968 |
| (RSY=Pyre 2). Pyre in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, in House B. In northern corner of room. No pit discerned. A deposit of small stones (a marker/) lay 0.30m above the level of the pyre, ... Third quarter of the 4th. century. |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C. |
| Pyre in House D, Room 4 (RSY=Pyre 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Notebook refers to House N.
Pottery belongs late in third quarter of the 4th. c. BC. Pyre burned near beginning of last ... 350-300 B.C. |
Fillings in a stone-curbed well in the industrial area west of the Areopagus. Diameter (shaft)1.45m. Water level -5.20m. Drain at mouth 0.58m., increasing to a regular 74m. Coin:
24 July 1947 #5 Subdivisions: ... 350-325 B.C./3rd c. B.C. |
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. |
Small deposit in bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 4th c. B.C. to early 3rd c. B.C. |
Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR.
Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
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. |
Abandoned digging at 12.85m. due to collapse of side walls. Well H contents probably thrown in to Well I during cleaning in early Roman times; the pottery from the two wells is similar. Cf. E 14:6 ... 350-250 B.C. |
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. |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C. |
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. |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C. |
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. |
| An extensive cistern system on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, south chamber with blind tunnel extending further south (south tunnel); north chamber; drawshaft further north, extends to north tunnel ... Ca. 320-240 B.C. |
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