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[Agora Image] 2004.01.1652 (HAT 62-210)

Griffon head from a cistern (Hellenistic context) at the foot of the Areopagus. Deposit H 16:3 ... 1962

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[Agora Object] L 5979: Lamp

Lamp, missing about half of upper portion, including handle and nozzle area. Disc with channel to nozzle, cross with two flaring arms ornamented with circles preserved. On rim, rings with smaller rings ... 2 August 1995

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[Agora Object] MC 2: Spindle Whorl

It has an elongated concave conical shape. Unpainted. The clay buff, but the surface bluish gray in part. S.W. passage of cistern. Hellenistic group B. Leica, 4-321, XXXIX-64 ... 19 April 1932

[Agora Object] MC 105: Loom Weight

Conical. Drawn in toward the bottom. Its bottom was punctured, perhaps to facilitate firing. Unglazed. Slightly gritty, buff clay. Cistern, north chamber. Leica, A-319 ... 1932

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[Agora Object] MC 106: Loom Weight

Conical. Drawn in toward the bottom. Its bottom was punctured in two places, perhaps to facilitate firing. Unglazed. Fine, greenish-yellow clay. Cistern, S.W. passage. Leica, 4-321 ... 1932

[Agora Object] MC 108: Loom Weight

Truncated pyramid. Fine, buff clay showing no trace of glaze. Cistern, main chamber. Leica, 4-316 ... 1932

[Agora Object] MC 109: Loom Weight

Conical with contracted bottom. The bottom punctured in four places perhaps to facilitate firing. Buff clay retaining traces of brown glaze. Cistern, main chamber. Leica, 4-316 ... 1932

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[Agora Object] P 811: Plastic Attachment: Griffin Head

Handle from large vase. Ears, chips from eye, nose and neck, missing; preserved to junction with vase, which shows traces of black glaze inside. Handle covered with slip, thick cream, on which may be ... 25 May 1932

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[Agora Object] P 815: Black Glaze Multiple Kernos

Bowl on stand with small cups attached around rim. Dish mended from many fragments. Five of the original nine small cups preserved. Restored in plaster. Hollow flaring base; handles horizontally attached ... 27 May 1932

[Agora Object] P 505: Amphora Fragment: West Slope

Mended from several fragments; about half the circumference of the rim preserved; partly restored in plaster. Neck with outcurving rim sharply set off from neat profiled shoulder. Around neck, vine pattern ... 13 April 1932

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[Agora Object] P 571: Lid

[Originally identified as low dish.] Straight sides sloping slightly toward top. Attic clay. Outside, cloudy black glaze; inside, unglazed, perhaps slipped. In south chamber of cistern. Leica, 4-317 ... 20 April 1932

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[Agora Object] P 572: Black Glaze Cup Kantharos

Handles broken away; base mended; chip missing. Horizontal handles. Around the outside of the moulded base, a groove, scraped and colored with miltos; inner edge of resting surface bevelled off and likewise ... 20 April 1932

[Agora Object] P 580: Black Glaze Bowl Fragment with Graffito

Fragment from bottom; mended from two pieces; a small part of the foot preserved. Ring foot. Letters scratched in the dry clay within ring foot: Attic clay, fair. Rather cloudy black glaze inside and ... 19 April 1932

[Agora Object] P 581: Kantharos: West Slope

Foot, handles and most of rim missing. Partly restored in plaster. Most of glaze peeled away, but ivy pattern around center of rim still discernible. Attic clay. Inside, good black glaze; outside mottled ... 20 April 1932

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[Agora Object] P 585: Miniature Plemochoe

More than half of lip missing. Globular jar with flaring lip made as though resting in high-footed two-handled basin. In the flat projecting rim of the basin, two holes pierced opposite handle, close to ... 20 April 1932

[Agora Object] P 633: Black Glaze Bowl Fragment with Graffito

Lower part only preserved. Ring base separated from body by concave moulding, so that it approaches profiled foot. Scraped groove around outside and resting surface of ring. On convex center, graffito: ... 22 April 1932

[Agora Object] P 634: Vessel Fragment: West Slope and Inscribed

Rim fragment of thin-walled vase with nearly vertical sides. Above a garland, the painted letters: Attic clay, grayed. Fairly good black glaze with metallic splotches. Decoration in thin white and clay-colored ... 22 April 1932

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[Agora Object] P 636: Unguentarium

Mended from several fragments; pieces missing from body. Small flaring foot; egg-shaped body. Wide white bands on body and at base of neck. Pink clay. Heavy gray slip inside and out. Cistern, south chamber ... 19 April 1932

[Agora Object] P 737: Askos

Mended from several fragments; back, front and part of left side missing. Restored in plaster. Low ring base. Pinkish-buff clay. Glazed inside and on handle; rather dull black glaze; a streak of glaze ... 22 April 1932

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[Agora Object] P 738: Black Glaze Cup Kantharos

Mended from many fragments; handles and chips from rim and sides missing. Moulded foot. Attic clay, somewhat grayed. Good glaze mottled to gray, all over save for two scratched grooves around outside ... 22 April 1932