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| Homer A. Thompson ... Section Μ was to be refilled this year and supplementary explorations took place to resolve some remaining obscurities. The most significant discovery was a road running northwest-southeast, probably the ... 20 Feb-8 Apr 1939 |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Three main ancient features were excavated within Section ΜΜ: the North Stoa, the South Building and the ancient East-West Street passing between the two buildings. After the destruction of the buildings, ... 10 Feb-25 May 1936 |
Lower left corner broken away. Palmette and scrolls; gorgoneion at middle. In raised letters below ]ΟΑ.
Brick-red clay with many white inclusions. Buff surface. Catalogued 1966. From container no. 44, ... 17-29 April 1936 |
| Obverse : I
Reverse : I
Surface somewhat flaked on both sides.
Cf. Svoronos (1923), class I, pl. 100, no 20. Originally entered as a coin no. 1. Behind the small stoa.
3rd c. B.C. Leica, 81-12-17, 81-12-18 ... 24 February 1939 |
Rough hemispherical piece of brown slag, probably iron bearing with some gray and some dull black. Catalogued 2 July 1973. Agora sample no. 620. Working establishment in courtyard, North-West of Agora ... 10 March 1939 |
Heavy fragmentary piece preserving dull black sluggish drippings. Catalogued 2 July 1973. Agora sample no. 621. Working establishment in courtyard, North-West of Agora and South of road to Agora from Dipylon ... 10 March 1939 |
Heavy piece of slag consisting of smooth sluggish gray to mauve drips, turning pink at ends originating at large irregular porous lump of orange to brown material which turns partly gray at base of dripped ... 10 March 1939 |
Inscribed statue base.
Broken away to left and behind; much worn by traffic on its underside, its top in its second use.
Part of a plain plinth with the mark of the left foot of a life-sized bronze statue ... 31 March 1939 |
| Inscribed baundary stone of Kerameikos.
Left in place when section was filled.
A roughly-trimmed block; its front face picked to be visible in its upper part; the top of the front face dressed with a toothed ... March 1939 |
Most of the left side preserved, with the nozzle; nothing of the bottom; handle broken off.
Walls nearly vertical; rim slightly down sloping; long nozzle. Band handle.
Fair black glaze, mottled with red ... 10 March 1939 |
Fragment preserving most of right side, with a bit of the raised base, the start of the nozzle, and one attachment of horizontal band handle.
Broad rounded body, wider below than above; two grooves around ... 10 March 1939 |
About half preserved, with start of nozzle.
Flat bottom, low bulging wall, broad nearly flat rim, widely projecting.
Black glaze on rim and inside; thinned glaze on outside.
Type II of Corinth collection, ... March 1939 |
| Two pieces broken from rim.
It is of lily type (bowl blends imperceptibly into rim; acute angle between stem socket and bowl axis), with reinforced toe, long flaring stem socket.
On front of bowl, an ... 31 March 1936 |
| Rim broken away; base chipped.
The bowl condensed to a wide disk with a smooth bottom. Flaring cup-like rim now largely missing. Large faceted stem socket with a large hole.
Orange clay, red slip; inside ... 21 April 1936 |
| Stem socket missing; about one third missing.
It has keel bottom, round bowl, straight-faced rim and faceted stem-socket.
Around the bowl a row of moulded and incised raised ovals; on each fact of rim, ... 19 March 1936 |
| Rim broken away.
It is of lily type with heavy, emphasized keel running beneath entire bowl and up front of bowl, where it becomes a decorative element. Faceted stem socket with heavy moulded stem end ... 19 March 1936 |
| Rim broken away, base chipped.
It has a bowl condensed to a disk; flat square foot; flaring cup-like rim now mostly missing, flaring stem socket wiht large hole.
Orange clay, uneven red slip. Catalogued ... 17, 31 March 1936 |
| Three-fourths of rim broken away.
It is of lily type with heavy, angular keel; smooth bowl merging into flaring heavy lip; flaring stem socket with two bands of rouletting partially encircling it.
Orange ... 17, 31 March 1936 |
| Rim broken away.
Round with keel bottom, petalled base, smooth stem and socket with moulded and stamped ornament at stem end and with a seal on right side. Suggested reading of seal (by N. Stavroulakis) ... 1 April 1936 |
| Stem socket broken away; rim chipped; bowl use-blackened inside.
Bowl of a lily pipe with emphasized keel running under entire bowl and up front where it forms a decorative element. Heavy lip with vertical ... 20 April 1936 |
| Rim broken away.
It has a bowl condensed to a disk; flat square foot; high flared cup-like rim now mostly missing. Long stem socket with large swelling at stem end with moulded striations.
Reddish brown ... 20 April 1936 |
| Fragment preserves base of a pipe, which is chipped. Stem socket and rim broken away.
The bowl is condensed into a petal-form disk with a keel bottom.
Orange clay, red slip, once burnished. surface through ... 20 April 1936 |
| Rim and about half of bowl broken away.
Pipe combining features of several types-small bowl flat on bottom, squared foot with concave lower surface, swollen stem socket.
Impressed decoration on stem end ... 20 April 1936 |
| Rim broken away. Interior of bowl use-blackened.
Pipe combining features of several types-small bowl flat on bottom, squared foot with concave lower surface, swollen stem socket. Identical with MC 1293 ... 20 April 1936 |
| Part of rim and stem end of stem socket broken away.
It has a bowl reduced to a small button disk, high flaring cup-like rim, keel bottom and flaring stem socket.
A row of rouletting decoration at base ... 20 April 1936 |
| A little over half of bowl and rim broken away.
It is of the lily type, with rim and bowl blending into each other, heavy lip with striations, long stem socket with large hole, and heavy keel continuing ... 20 April 1936 |
| Stem socket broken away.
Round pipe with keel bottom, godrooned bowl, high straight rim.
Rouletting between rim and bowl, bowl and keel.
Orange clay and slip, somewhat burnished. 54.50-53.50m. above debris ... 5 May 1936 |
| It is of lily type, bowl and rim blended together, heavy keel continuing beneath bowl and up the front, where it becomes a decorative element. Long stem socket with heavy moulded ring at stem end.
Impressed ... 5 May 1936 |
| Rim broken away, inside blackened by use.
It has a bowl condensed to a very small disk, keel bottom, cup-like rim (now missing) and short stem socket with large swelling at stem end, ornamented with four ... 31 March 1936 |
| Mended. Stem socket and two pieces from rim are broken away.
Round with keel bottom and high straight rim.
Impressed patterns in decorative band set off rim from bowl.
Reddish brown clay and slip, burnished ... 21 April 1936 |
| Rim broken.
Rounded bowl pipe with keel; faceted bowl and faceted rim.
Palmettes stamped on rim and on shoulder of bowl; fringed ovals stamped on bowl; large leaf stamped on bowl clade to socket on smoker ... 19 March 1936 |
| Mended from many pieces; a few small fragments of the wall, and one of the lip, missing. Open hemispherical bowl on tall moulded foot. Beneath lip on outer wall, two grooves. Beneath these grooves, on ... 8 April 1936 |
Fragment of base of black glazed skyphos of Attic type.
Incised on underside: N-S cut on 50m. line, area of Stoa, layer XII(b), possibly intrusive; mid-4th c. B.C. 1156 Leica PD 1133-7(E 11) ... 20 March 1939 |
Fragment from base of neck of a plain amphora.
Inscribed in black ink:
Fairly micaceous red clay; light slip. Area of road, 1st. c. A.D. 1092 Leica PD 1133-26(F 263) ... 11 March 1939 |
| Fragmentary but semi-profile complete. Hemispherical in shape; rim below sharply incurved, a hole in the top, the edge around the hole flat.
Dull black glaze on the outside only; hard brownish-buff clay, ... 10 March 1939 |
| Fragment from upper wall, broken all around. Head of woman to right, her right hand raised behind her head; vine tendrils above. At the right of the fragment, part of a thyrsos. White for flesh and tendrils; ... 10 March 1939 |
A large fragment from the lower wall, made up of many pieces and preserving parts of both front and back panels; also eleven non-joining wall fragments, some with portions of the figured scenes.
A) Athena, ... 10 March 1939 |
| From the rim of a column krater; trace of handle attachment at right.
Slanting palmette pattern on the slightly concave outer face; on the top, a wreath of olive, leaves and berries in white, stems in ... 10 March 1939 |
| Two fragments from upper wall of a large vase, glazed at least to below the neck inside; pelike?
a) A bit of the lower part of the lotus and palmette band around the neck; below, the top of a woman's ... 10 March 1939 |
| Fragment from upper wall of bell krater; bit of reserved band below rim preserved. Parts of two figures remain, a youth, left, holding a large club and a woman facing him. He wears a white fillet and white ... 10 March 1939 |
| From the wall of a bell krater with part of egg border around handle, at right. Upper part of female figure, left; seahorse pattern on her blouse; crossed white fillet with long-tasseled flying ends around ... 10 March 1939 |
Two fragments mended in antiquity with a lead clamp and still held together. From the rim and wall of a large skyphos with sharply out-turned rim and in-drawn lower wall. Egg and dot on outer face of rim; ... 10 March 1939 |
| (a) Fragment from top, set off from wall by two unglazed grooves. Large-scale head, with long curls and a dotted tiara, to right; at right edge, part of a spiral ornament.
Thin metallic glaze.
ADDENDA ... 10 March 1939 |
| Fragment from the top, preserving much of a griffin, seated right. Head, tops of wing, and front part missing. Relatively careful work. "Foundary Pit", N-S cut on 50m. line, area of Stoa, layer VII, with ... 10 March 1939 |
| Fragment from a lekanis lid; black glazed beneath. Eros, right, kneeling on one knee, and holding a large alabastron in his outstretched right hand. In front of him on the ground, a box; facing him, over ... 10 March 1939 |
The handle preserved with part of the neck and shoulder and most of the base. No join between upper and lower part; conjecturally restored in plaster. Ring foot, rounded body, trefoil lip, handle with ... 10 March 1939 |
Part of lip and much of walls missing; profile complete; restored in plaster. Small broad-shouldered globular jug on ring foot; narrow neck with handle-ridge; wide round bell mouth. Band handle, neck to ... 10 March 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves the broad round doubled-over lip, with narrow opening, of a small top-heavy jug.
Excellent blue-black glaze. "Foundary Pit", N-S cut on 50m. line, area of Stoa, layer VII, ... 10 March 1939 |
Two small fragments of rim and wall missing; restored in plaster. Ring foot, roughly rounded wall, lip flat on top; handle spreading from attachments, and tilted well above lip.
Inscribed beneath, within ... 10 March 1939 |
About one-third of rim missing and chips. High slightly flaring ring foot; wall rounded below, nearly vertical above, with rounded lip, slightly projecting.
Thick black glaze, worn on exterior. Reserved ... 10 March 1939 |
| Piece of side missing and chips; restored in plaster. High straight ring foot; wall rounded below, vertical above, with rounded lip slightly projecting. Stamped at center of floor, a cluster of ovules, ... 10 March 1939 |
Fragments of rim missing and chips from foot; restored in plaster. Small plate on wide slightly rounded ring foot. Floor flat, surrounded by slightly raised rolled rim; profiled outer wall. On the floor, ... 10 March 1939 |
| Fragments of rim missing; restored in plaster. Low wide ring foot, grooved beneath. Flat floor, its underside profiled, surrounded by a slightly raised rounded rim with two lightly run grooves, under the ... 10 March 1939 |
| Four fragments, three from the rim and one from the floor with part of the foot, from a large elaborately moulded plate. Flat floor; broad ring foot with a ridge around its inner edge; low convex rim, ... 10 March 1939 |
About half preserved with one handle; made up in plaster. Angular ring foot, gently rounded wall, broad projecting rim, not quite flat on top. Horizontal handles, with turned up ends. Inside, top of rim ... 10 March 1939 |
Much missing; no join between neck and body fragments, but profile can be restored. Made up in plaster, without foot. Plump eggy body on ring foot, the wall forming an angle with the shoulder; continuous ... 10 March 1939 |
Fragmentary; most of the wall, bottom and rim missing with much of the vertical handle and one of the horizontal handles (one attachment preserved). Restored in plaster. Round-bodied pot with very short ... 10 March 1939 |
| Casserole: rather less than half missing, with one handle; restored in plaster. Rounded bottom, short angular shoulder, high slightly flaring rim, turned out at upper edge, and flanged inside, for a lid ... 10 March 1939 |
Most of the bottom missing, and small bits of rim and wall; restored in plaster. Rounded bottom, short rounded shoulder; high flaring rim, flanged for lid. Horizontal handles set on edge of rim and flaring ... 10 March 1939 |
About half the base with the start of the wall, preserved. A heavy-type skyphos, the wall drawn in above the ring foot.
Dull black glaze; the resting surface reserved, and the space inside the ring foot, ... 10 March 1939 |
| Two fragments from the lower wall of a coarse bell krater.
a) Scene A) Part of a symposium, with a cushioned couch on which reclines a draped figure; near the end of the couch, a female figure standing ... 10 March 1939 |
Fragment from the shoulder of a closed pot; rays(?) above. Herakles in lion's skin (head and part of right arm preserved) left, brandishes his club over his head. Careless incision; red for beard, light ... March 1939 |
| From the wall of a column krater; streaky black inside. Preserved is the midpart of a partly draped figure, reclining to left on a cushioned couch. Dilute glaze for muscles; no relief contour. Pit with ... March 1939 |
| Small piece from side of kylix. Inside, black; on exterior, a left forearm and hand holding a shield, left, of which the inside is seen. A spear shaft crosses the field, and the edge of the shield. The ... March 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves profile to floor and one handle. Low heavy torus ring foot; bulging wall, concave rim with slightly thickened lip; stout uptilted handle. Reserved: handle space and inside of ... March 1939 |
Wall fragment, mended from three pieces; two small fragments do not join. Around the wall a broad band of decoration, set off by shallow grooves: the band paneled by groups of four verticals; in the panels, ... March 1939 |
About half the rim and part of the floor preserved with one handle and the start of the stand. Shallow bowl with broad nearly flat rim; perforated stand; stubby rolled horizontal handle set just below ... March 1939 |
| Fragmentary, but fairly complete; restored in plaster. Vertical upper wall; spurred handles; high stem with stepped foot.
Dull black glaze. Μελαμβαφής κάνθαρος. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το σώμα του αγγείου ... 15 March 1939 |
About half remains. From a small black glazed kylix base.
Incised on top:
and on underside:
Black glaze much flaked. Clearing boundary stone, layer 5. Very firm packed road gravel. Pottery of late ... 1 April 1939 |
| Shoulder fragment. A youth to right, ivy-crowned; his extended right arm is gripped by another. Pit with burning, layer X. 1178 Leica ... 30 March 1939 |
Preserves part of plain lip and start of spout of round-bodied vase, probably a sauce-boat.
Fine hard pinkish-buff clay; hard creamy glaze, inside and out. Θραύσμα που προέρχεται από το χείλος αγγείου ... 30 March 1939 |
| Two much-mended fragments (a tenuous join between them) and a small non-joining piece give nearly half the diameter of a deep bowl with rounded wall and plain lip. Restored in plaster. Two partly scraped ... 5 May 1939 |
| Fragment from upper wall; lip out-turned. Trace of handle to left. A draped figure, to right, a palmette below the handle. Filling of drain of the "shop" in N.W. corner of section. Cf. "Foundry Pit". Filling ... 3 May 1939 |
From the bottom of a bowl with medium ring foot. In the center, a cross with lozenge-shaped arms with small circles at the apices; a cross hatched square in the middle of each arm.
Pinkish-buff clay; ... 1931 |
Stand fragment preserves most of the body and part of the arms of a woman, seen frontally; she wears a peplos over-girt, with a heavy black border to the overfall. In her right hand she holds an object ... March 1939 |
Mended from three pieces. Rim fragment; upper surface of rim slightly slopng inward. At the top of the wall, a slightly projecting band, covered with glaze; a groove at about its middle causes its upper ... March 1939 |
| Part of foot and floor preserved. High foot, a groove in the resting surface. Impressed decoration: palmettes surrounded by rouletting.
Pinkish-buff clay; completely glazed except reserved grooves in ... March 1939 |
Part of foot, floor and wall preserved. High foot, a shallow groove in the resting surface. Within, impressed palmettes surrounded by rouletting.
Pinkish-buff clay; completely glazed except reserved ... March 1939 |
Part of foot, floor and wall reserved. High foot, a groove in the resting surface. Within, impressed palmettes surrounded by rouletting.
Pinkish-buff clay; imperfect firing; conmpletely glazed except ... March 1939 |
Foot and floor preserved. Low foot, a groove in the resting surface. Impressed decoration: a band of ovules surrounded by seven palmettes.
Pinkish-buff clay; completely glazed except reserved groove ... 16 March 1939 |
Part of foot and floor preserved. Moulded foot, a groove in the resting surface. Within, impressed palmettes.
Pinkish-buff clay; completley glazed except in reserved groove in the resting surface and ... March 1939 |
Part of floor and foot preserved. Low foot, a groove in the resting surface. Impressed decoration; palmettes surrounded by rouletting.
Pinkish-buff clay; completely glazed except reserved grooves in ... March 1939 |
Part of foot and floor preserved. Low foot, a groove in the resting surface. Impressed decoration; palmettes surrounded by rouletting.
Pinkish-buff clay; glaze fired red on outside; reserved groove in ... March 1939 |
Part of foot and floor preserved. Moulded ring foot. Impressed decoration: linked palmettes surrounded by rouletting.
Pinkish-buff clay; underside reserved, with two wide and three narrow glazed circles ... 15 March 1939 |
| Two non-joining fragments.
a) Mended from two pieces. Rim fragment, wreath in rim; hair and part of forehead of a maenad to right. She wears fillet and wreath.
b) Part of the rim wreath; head of bearded ... March 1939 |
| Closed vase fragment; from upper wall.
Parts of two women preserved, facing right, wearing peplos; the overfolds of their peploi are rendered in added red and decorated with a broad patterned band. The ... 22 June 1939 |
| Half of lower body, foot missing.
Woman running toward laver. No relief contour. North of Stoa, red earth filling. Box 296. Leica ... 1939 |
Fragment preserves two of three shell feet, part of floor and wall. Bit of West Slope decoration above (diminishing rectangles) set off by groove through glaze.
Black glaze; pink to buff clay.
For ... 17 April 1936 |
Lower neck and beginning of shoulder preserved in two joining fragments. Two grooves through glaze at juncture of neck and shoulder. Ivy garland in applied clay around shoulder.
Dull but firm black glaze; ... 17 April 1936 |
| a) Neck preserved with most of rim, some of handle at upper attachment and beginning of shoulder. Three joining fragments.
b) Base with slightly more than half of wall and small part of shoulder preserved ... 17 April 1936 |
| Handles and about two-thrids of upper body missing. Mended from many fragments. One non-joining fragment from rim and wall. Somewhat restored in plaster. Grooves through glaze (with miltos) around base ... 17 April 1936 |
Lip and wall fragment. Plain lip with two grooves wheel run through glaze. Just below on wall in applied clay: dolphins over waves.
Fully glazed.
Cf. P 15130. 4.60m.-bottom. Catalogued 1960. Cistern ... 17 April 1936 |
| Two joining fragments from lip and wall. Plain lip with two grooves wheel run beneath glaze. Just below on wall, dolphins over waves (upside down egg pattern with leaf darts).
Firm black glaze; reddish ... 17 April 1936 |
Lip and wall fragment. Plain lip with two wheel run grooves through glaze just below. On wall, checkerboard and diminishing rectangles. Fully glazed.
Firm black glaze. Reddish clay.
For shape, cf ... 17 April 1936 |
Two joining fragments from base and wall. Hemispherical bowl, grooved outside. False ring foot. On exterior, wheel run grooves beneath glaze. Inside, part of a wheel run circle for medallion beneath glaze ... 17 April 1936 |
Fragment from wall. Hemispherical bowl, grooved outside. Inside, in applied clay and white, a zone of grapevine below, and one with dolphins and dot rosettes above.
Fully glazed. 4.60m.-bottom. Catalogued ... 17 April 1936 |
Fragment from wall. Hemispherical bowl, grooved outside. Inside, in applied clay, a zone of grapevine set off above and below by wheel run groove through glaze.
Fully glazed. 4.60m.-bottom. Catalogued ... 17 April 1936 |
a) Fragment from edge of bottom to mid-wall.
b) Wall.
Inside, in applied clay and white, a zone of spiral vine with a wheel run groove beneath glaze below. Grooved outside; false ring foot.
Firm black ... 17 April 1936 |
Rim and upper wall fragment. Inside in applied clay and white, an ivy garland. Grooved outside.
Mottled glaze. 4.60m.-bottom. Catalogued 1960. Cistern. 366 Leica ... 17 April 1936 |
| Single fragment preserves part of lip, wall and one handle. Flat rim; recurved handle, touching underside of lip. Fully glazed.
Black glaze, mottled and dull. Pink-buff clay. Catalogued 1960. Cistern ... 17 April 1936 |
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