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| Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997 |
| Two small pieces missing, from rim and from body. Wheel made.
Double convex body. Depressed top.
Short nozzle, slightly turned up at fluked ends.
Base simulated by a groove round the bottom of the body ... 16 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 |
Vertical band handle broken away. Fragmentary.
Double convex body, the lower part entirely missing.
Top sunken around filling hole.
Nozzles set at irregular intervals round the circular body of the lamp; ... 22 April 1932 |
Vertical strap handle missing.
Unpierced knob on one side of double convex body. Small, slightly sunken top. Flat bottom; no base.
Gray to buff slightly micaceous clay; traces of dull black glaze, nearly ... 225-125 B.C. |
Handle broken, nozzle missing.
Plain lamp with angular body, sunken top, band handle, and simulated ring foot. Pierced lug on left side. Wheel made.
Black glaze once fairly good, now largely peeled.
Type ... 11 June 1936 |
Handle missing.
Angular body; unpierced lug on side; blunt nozzle; flat bottom.
Graffito on top of nozzle.
Black glaze much chipped.
Type XII (early spreading-wheel made) of Corinth collection, type 34A ... 8 June 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 |
Complete except for small hole on discus, and chips.
Very low base ring, broken into three arcs; narrow rim with two grooves; large, deeply depressed plain discus; ribbon lugs on sides with subsidiary ... 16 June 1938 |
Band handle restored in plaster, and small fragments of top and bottom.
Flat bottom, sunk discus, and pierced lug. Roughly triangular nozzle.
Dull black glaze.
Type XII of Corinth collection, type 34A ... 27-28 June 1935, 26-27 May 1936 |
Handle and ends of two nozzles missing.
Broad watch-shaped body on broad low raised base; top very slightly depressed. Stubby-ended nozzles.
Dull black glaze; chipped.
Type XII of Corinth collection, ... 26 May 1939 |
Parts of three nozzles, and fragments of top, sides and bottom missing, with most of handle, of which the preserved fragment does not join.
Large lamp, with raised base, with flaring edge; flat and twice ... 1 June 1939 |
End of nozzle and fragments of body missing.
Early spreading variety, wheelmade.
Black glaze.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type XII of Corinth collection, type 34A of Agora collection. Cistern. Container 6: lower ... 9 April 1949 |
| End of nozzle missing, otherwise intact.
Sunken discus. Groove around rim; pierced lug; high ring foot.
Thin dull glaze, somewhat flaked.
Type XII of Corinth collection, type 34A of Agora collection ... 13 July 1949 |
Handle and part of one nozzle missing.
Unpierced lug at left.
Metallic black glaze, flaky.
Type 34B of Agora collection. Pier 8, west; behind back wall of mud Brick Building; Stoa fill or earlier. Leica, ... 26 May 1950 |
Tip of nozzle broken away.
Unpierced knob.
Dull black glaze.
Type XII of Corinth collection, type 34A of Agora collection. From tumbled man-hole of tunnel to East of Stoa Shop XIV. Stoa fill or earlier ... 27 July 1950 |
| Tip of nozzle missing.
V-shaped profile; depressed rim around filling hole, pierced lug. Low raised base.
Thin dull red to black glaze, all over.
Type 34A of Agora collection. Trench for foundation of ... 27 August 1953 |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine. |
| Report on sorting of pottery, August 1951, by H.S. Robinson [nb p. 3666].
Cistern discovered and dug to 1.60m., vi/10/36; dug to bottom iv/22/37-v/6/37. Diam. At mouth 0.26m.; neck begins to widen out ... 1st. c. B.C. to post-Herulian |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C. |
Early Roman well with four fills.
fill 1: well sealed 1st. c. A.D.
fill 2: more bones than pots.
fill 3: nothing later than 1st. c. B.C.=POU
fill 4: similar to fill 3, a little earlier? Coins:
7 May 1940 ... Early Roman |
Water channel in north part of section, giving access to water system. Channel Mouth 1. Six stamped amphora handles; two-thirds of bowls long-petal ... Late 2nd century-Early 1st c. B.C. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C. |
Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos ... 175-125 B.C. |
Cistern shaft southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Unstratified fill.
Ten stamped amphora handles; Type 34A lamp; many fragments of long-petal b suggesting material deposited ca. 140 or later. Cf. Pireus ... Ca. 200-125 B.C. |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C. |
Well near southwest corner of market square; successive use fillings, and dumped filling.
Lower use filling, second half of 4th century B.C.
Main use filling, second quarter of 2nd century B.C. to shortly ... 10 April-31 May 1935 |
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. |
The following objects may be from this level or from the 'Mixed Classical Level at 10/Δ: SS 449, SS 450, SS 451 (nbp. 186, 2819). Coins:
4 March 1933 #1-#6 (cf. #7-#13)
7 March 1933 #39 ... 150-86 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. |
South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C. |
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C. |
Cistern at 72/ΛΘ. Under NW corner of Roman House H. Stucco-lined, bottle-shaped cistern, poor condition. Diameter at bottom -2m.
Two tunnels, one leading east, one west, ca. 1.65m high and 0.80m across ... 150-110 B.C. with a few earlier pieces |
Trench for foundation of south stylobate of Square Building (between Piers 12-13) ... Late 3rd-early 2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of Panathenaic Way; dumped filling of 1st century B.C.
Bottom diameter 3.90m. Cistern with connecting draw-shaft and a dead end tunnel dates from Late Hellenistic ... 1st century B.C. |
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