"Redirect","Chronology","Id","dc-title","dc-publisher","Name","Type","dc-subject","dc-date","dc-creator","Collection","UserLevel","dc-description","Icon" "","Middle of 4th c. B.C.","Agora:Deposit:D 17:8","Sacrificial Pyre in Poros Building, Northwest Room","","D 17:8","Deposit","","4-7 June 1949","","Agora","","Sacrificial pyre in Poros Building, NW Room (RSY= Pyre 1).; ; Against east wall of room 5 west. artifacts, bone, carbon and ash in pit in floor sequence. the pyre lay below a floor covered with marble dust, the lowest floor that can be associated with the north wall of the room. The pit extends down into a layer with marbleworking waste. The pyre thus postdates the arrival of the marbleworkers, and may be associated with the 4th century reconstruction of the building. It contained scattered carbon and there was a heavy ash deposit in the chytridion. some of the pottery is burnt; there were also fragments of burnt mudbrick or clay. A lekane and the lower part of an amphora set into the floor of this room may have served industrial purposes.","Agora:Image:2013.09.0016::/Agora/2013/2013.09/2013.09.0016.tif::4248::1818" "","","Agora:Object:P 20059","Black Glaze Cup Kantharos","","P 20059","Object","Black and Plain Pottery | Kantharos | Cup-Kantharos | Plain Rim | Bowl-Shaped","6 June 1949","","Agora","","Few chips missing. High moulded ring foot grooved on resting surface; hemispherical body; plain slightly inturned lip; high-swung handles, squared off at the ends and slightly bent over. ; ; Slightly metallic good black glaze inside and out.","Agora:Image:2013.09.0016::/Agora/2013/2013.09/2013.09.0016.tif::4248::1818" "","","Agora:Object:P 20060","Black Glaze Pyxis with Lid","","P 20060","Object","","6 June 1949","","Agora","","Both lid and bowl broken, but complete save for a few chips. Plain handleless bowl, the rim inset to take the lid. High heavy ring foot, the resting surface broad, a small concavity at the center. Lid slightly domed, the rim downturned, the heavy knob grooved and ridged. ; ; Thin glaze, over all on the lid; not reaching to foot on bowl; metallic grayish-black on the lid; on the bowl brown to red, very uneven.","Agora:Image:2012.52.0616::/Agora/2012/2012.52/2012.52.0616.jpg::1898::1159" "","","Agora:Object:P 20061","Black Glaze Plate","","P 20061","Object","Black and Plain Pottery | Vases from Sacrificial Pyres | Small Plate","6 June 1949","","Agora","","Mended complete. ; Ring foot; narrow rim sloping slightly outwards. Two furrows on top of rim. Deep groove on outside, below rim; and groove on inside at outer edge of floor. ; ; Originally glazed over all; now much peeled; red-brown to black.","" "","","Agora:Object:P 20062","Saucer","","P 20062","Object","","6 June 1949","","Agora","","Mended complete except for small piece of floor, and chips. Ring foot very roughly and irregularly made; considerably higher on one side than on the other; the space inside it left rough from the wheel, and the wall outside wheel-ridged. Flat floor curving to plain rim rounded on top. ; ; Thin dull glaze wash, red to brown, irregularly over all except on rim, reserved.","" "","","Agora:Object:P 20063","Plate: Banded","","P 20063","Object","Black and Plain Pottery | Vases from Sacrificial Pyres | Ribbon-Handled Plate","6 June 1949","","Agora","","Plate with ribbon handles. Mended complete. Low flat base higher on one side than on the other. Small plain plate with a broad band handle smeared on to the rim at either side. Thin red to black glaze, considerably peeled, on the handles and for two bands around the floor. One large dot of glaze spilled between the bands.","" "","","Agora:Object:P 20064","Plate: Banded","","P 20064","Object","","6 June 1949","","Agora","","Plate with ribbon handles. Mended complete. Plain plate similar to P 20063 (ΟΟ 1142) but somewhat smaller and somewhat neater. The outer glaze band reaches to the rim. The glaze on the handles, applied by dipping, extends also over the wall below them outside, and has left a large scallop on one side of the reserved band on the floor inside. Light wheel ridges on the floor. ; ; ADDENDA P 20063: Low flat base higher on one side than on the other. Small plain plate with a broad band handle smeared on to the rim at either side.","" "","","Agora:Object:P 20065","Miniature Vessel Fragment: Cooking Ware","","P 20065","Object","","6 June 1949","","Agora","","Chip of rim missing. Plump, round-bottomed pot with one handle, from rim. Wide mouth, plain rim slightly out-turned. ; ; Slightly gritty reddish-buff clay. Traces of heavy ash deposit on inside.",""