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Two joining fragments make up more than half the lamp, but handle mostly broken off. Fragmentary
Handle pierced. Globules and bars on rim.
Disc decorated with two warriors. From fill of deep passage leading ... 26 October 1956 |
Complete save minor breaks.
Discus decorated with fine rays. On rim, six raised dots; handle pierced.
Signature in raised letters on reverse: "ΠΙΡΕΙΘΟΥ". Well in branch of aqueduct; container 10. 1203 ... August 1955 |
Intact.
Discus decorated with jar of fruit.
On rim, spirals; Handle partly pierced.
Reverse leaf. Well in branch of aqueduct; container 10. 1203 Leica ... August 1955 |
Small globules on wall and top.
On the bottom, within a ring, a head in relief outline, in profile to right.
Very hard dark purple-red clay. Picked up on the Areopagus dump by a visitor; from the Agora ... January 1957 |
Fragment preserving kantharos; from oversize lamp disk with Dionysos bust, lion and thyrsos.
Purplish glaze.
Orange clay.
First half of 4th. century. Destruction fill of late Roman building. 516-518 Leica ... 13-16 April 1935 |
Part of rim, wall and nozzle preserved.
On disc, head of lion with pierced eyes, from scene of Dionysos bust with kantaros, thyrsos and grape vines.
Two framing rings. Plain narrow rim. U-nozzle with scrolls ... 2 May 1957 |
The bottom only preserved mended from many few fragments.
Within a low raised ring, a double palmette in relief.
Unglazed.
Soft buff clay. Cistern with cesspool; Box 6. Evidently from the disturbed part ... 6 August 1957 |
| More than half preserved, including handle, in many joining fragments.
Disc decorated with relief spirals, raised ring. On rim, relief ornament.
Stub handle. Low ring at base.
Brownish wash.
Brittle brown ... 24 June 1959 |
Intact.
On disc, whirling petals, two rings. On rim, wreath; panelled. Handle grooved and pierced. On base, within two grooves, signed" ΠΡΕΙΜΟΥ".
Buff clay.
Late 3rd.-early 4th. century. Well G; Box LXIX ... 30 June 1959 |
| Two joining fragments preserve most of disc, handle and part of wall and base.
On disc, within border of spiral and double groove, youthful centaur in relief raising a club as he moves left; drapery over ... 27 June 1959 |
Part of rim, wall, base and nozzle missing; restored in plaster.
Disc with shell, framing ring. On rim, impressed ovolos.
Handle pierced and grooved.
On base, within grooved circle "XPYC(OC)TONOY".
Pale ... 30 June 1959 |
Broken all around. Mold made. From the upper front part of a figure wearing an elaborate breastplate; over the left shoulder falls the mask of a lion's skin; eyes punched. At the lower edge of the fragment ... 20 May 1936 |
The fragment seems to represent the upper part of a draped female figure preserved, in part from neck to waist. A square breast-plate ornamented with dots and gouges is worn over drapery. A long lock of ... 14 May 1935 |
A flat triangular piece with a knob at the end. On the upper surface, part of a triangular(?) relief ornament.
Pinkish-buff clay; no paint or glaze. Mixed fill. Leica ... 22 May 1935 |
Back and most of front missing.
Circular hollow handle shield (?), decorated with incised cross (?) and small circles.
Orange clay, gray at the surface.
Publication: 5th c. A.D. Burned Building; west ... Publication: 5th c. A.D. |
About half preserved.
A disk made in two layers and stuck together.
Obverse: a cross, probably stamped, with stamped circles and a letter (omega, Ω ?) in one corner. Below this corner the preserved edge ... 8 April 1936 |
Horse-shoe-shaped object, broken at the back, chipped on the upper surface; broken along the bottom, but the ornament complete.
Border wavy lines; within, Christian monogram with stamped circles. Unglazed ... 27 April 1936 |
Mended from two fragments; broken below collar; nose missing. Eyes bored. Mold made with careful join; remains of glaze inside, at mouth end.
Cf. BMC Lamps, pl. VI, no. 85 and Alexandria Museum no. 6502 ... 5 May 1932 |
About half of a long rectangular lug handle, with part of some ornament rising at the center. Impressed ovules on a raised band along the edge of the rectangular portion.
Pinkish-orange clay; dull rather ... 16 June 1947 |
First interpretation: satyr mask.
Slave mask in high relief, with pierced grooved handle (like Roman lamp handles) above.
Traces of metallic black glaze almost entirely peeled off.
Gray clay. Well, dump, ... 24 July 1946 |
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