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| 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. |
Stoa Construction Fills (n.b. for all Stoa and pre-Stoa fills later than construction filling of Square Peristyle see P-R 6-12)
Over 100 stamped amphora handles in fill. No long-petal bowls, but one fragment ... Before ca. 150 B.C. |
The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C. |
A well behind the Stoa of Zeus. Noted as the finding place of the bronze head of Nike, B 30.
Two Rhodian stamped amphora handles. Fragments of only two bowls ... 260-210 B.C. |
| 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. |
| Handleless lamp with pierced lug on one side. Wheel made.
Broad top, slightly concave. Simulated ring foot.
Black glaze, much peeled.
Type XVI (glazed variety) of Corinth collection, type 33A of Agora ... 12 March 1936 |
Front part only, with rounded nozzle and plain lug.
Flat bottom, slightly depressed; rounded body; gently sloping rim.
Black glaze badly flaked. Wheel made.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type XII (early spreading ... 22 February 1937 |
Handle and end of nozzle broken off.
Deep-set rim; wheel made.
Dull black glaze, somewhat peeled.
Type XII ( late straight variety) of Corinth collection, type 33A of Agora collection. Cistern, bottom ... 10-11 March 1936 |
| Intact, except for chip from nozzle.
Shallow spreading variety; pierced lug on side; no handle. Low ring foot. Top slightly concave; nozzle fluked.
Dull black glaze, much peeled. Wheel made.
Yellowish ... 25 June 1938 |
| Nozzle broken.
Concave top. Angular profile, sides converging toward top; on the left side a pointed knob, unpierced.
Vertical band handle, broken away.
No base. Bottom, untrimmed; glazed.
Thin black metallic ... 13 July 1931 |
| No handle or knob.
Squat body, rounding, merging with rim from which it is set off only by a very shallow groove.
Nozzle, fairly flat on top, but rounding toward wick hole. Nozzle is long and pointed; ... 16 February 1932 |
Lamp mended from several fragments; part of back missing. Vertical band handle broken away. No base. Wheel made.
Rounded double convex body.
Top, slightly depressed. Nozzle, square at end, curving on top ... 17 March 1932 |
| Lamp with very large crudely made nozzle and raised rim round upper part of body. Tip of nozzle broken. Wheel made.
Rounding body, with down sloping rim set off from body by irregular groove. The wall ... 22 April 1932 |
Mended from two pieces; complete except for chips.
Deep pear-shaped body; flat bottom; flat top, slightly insloping; nozzle flat on top; rising band handle. Wheelmade (?).
Black glaze over all.
Type V ... May 1947 |
Early spreading variety, wheelmade.
Handle, nozzle, part of wall and rim missing.
Pierced lug.
Black glaze shading to red, pinkish-buff clay.
Type XII of Corinth collection, type 33A of Agora collection ... 7 March 1936 |
| Hand and end of nozzle missing, otherwise intact.
Double conical shape; concave top marked off by groove; pierced lug.
Metallic glaze, much flaked.
Type XII of Corinth collection, type 33A of Agora collection ... 9 July 1949 |
| 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 |
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