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[Agora Publication] Greek Lamps and Their Survivals

Howland, R. H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of “closed deposits” at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B.C ... 1958

[Agora Object] L 243: Lamp

Front part of lamp. Rim merging with sides; broken along inner edge; close to the break, traces of a reserved band. Short nozzle, shallow, rounded, encroaching on rim. No base; under surface slightly concave ... 10 August 1931

[Agora Object] L 4535: Lamp

Three non-joining fragments; one with part of the floor, about two thirds of the rim, and the stamp of the nozzle; a floor fragment and a rim fragment from the back with the stump of the horizontal handle ... 24 April -13 June 1947

[Agora Object] L 4695: Lamp

Fragment of lamp mended from three pieces; almost half of rim with half of nozzle, one root of handle and part of floor is preserved. Glaze on rim, handle, nozzle and floor. Reserved band on rim. Type ... 23 May 1950

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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.