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[Agora Publication] Hellenistic Pottery Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material

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

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[Agora Object] L 461: Lamp

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

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[Agora Object] L 558: Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 559: Seven Nozzle Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 1808: Lamp

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.

[Agora Object] L 2544: Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 3107: Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 3155: Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 3574: Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 3640: Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 3828: Three Nozzle Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 3858: Multiple Nozzle Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 4567: Lamp

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

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[Agora Object] L 4615: Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 4722: Three Nozzle Lamp

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

[Agora Object] L 4756: Lamp

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

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[Agora Object] L 5106: Lamp

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

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[Agora Deposit] A 14:1: Early Roman Well

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.

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[Agora Deposit] A 14:2: Cistern in ΠΘ

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

[Agora Deposit] A-B 19-20:1: Great Drain South

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.