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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

[Agora Object] L 513: Lamp

End of nozzle broken away. Double convex body with sharp angle between halves. On rim, raised ovolo. Top surrounded by high edge. Filling hole with slightly raised edge with three auxiliary holes. Nozzle, ... 7 April 1932

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[Agora Object] L 1400: Lamp Fragment

End of nozzle and much of side wall missing. Low base ring. High body with convex profile. Vertical strap handle. On the shoulder are nodules, irregularly spaced, and on the top of the nozzle a ribbed ... 3-12 March 1934

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[Agora Object] L 1401: Lamp Fragment

Handle, much of side wall, missing. Low base ring; watch-shaped body. Narrow depression around filling hole; vertical strap handle. Tip of nozzle flares slightly. Shoulder and top of nozzle decorated with ... 3-12 March 1934

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[Agora Object] L 1817: Lamp

Trefoil ended nozzle; vertical grooved strap handle, partly missing. Relief decoration on upper body; bead and reel, and ring of dots; mask (?) on top of nozzle. Top surrounded by high raised edge; three ... 25 May 1935

[Agora Object] L 2020: Lamp

Vertical strap handle and end of nozzle missing. Raised edge around small sunken center; three small holes and central filling hole inside it. On upper body, horizontal band of scale pattern, dots above ... 25 February 1936

[Agora Object] L 2649: Lamp Fragment

Handle, nozzle, most of base, missing. A high edge around discus which has three small holes around infundibulum. Small spirals in relief on shoulder. Low base without foot ring. Traces of dull black ... April-June 1936

[Agora Object] L 2860: Lamp

End of nozzle missing. Raised base, concave beneath. No handle, cornucopia knob on side. Rays on top, separated from narrow rim by two grooves. From a very crisp mould. Unglazed (?). Buff clay. Type XVIII ... 23 March 1937

[Agora Object] L 2979: Lamp Fragment

Nozzle only. Long nozzle with lozenge-shaped end, decorated with grooves and with three stamped palmettes next to body. Gray clay and glaze. Type XIX (?) of Corinth collection, type 49A of Agora collection ... 15 April 1937

[Agora Object] L 3154: Lamp

Nozzle and handle broken off. At the base of the body, tendril scrolls; on the body, ivy leaves. Black glaze. Gray clay. Type XIX of Corinth collection, type 49A of Agora collection. Cistern, bottom fill ... 10-11 March 1936

[Agora Object] L 3158: Lamp

The bottom, handle and end of the nozzle broken away. Relief tongues on upper body, and an urn on the upper face of the nozzle. Three holes through the flat inner rim. Dull black glaze. Gray clay. Type ... 25-29 February 1936

[Agora Object] L 3695: Lamp

Most of the upper part of the collar around the body and nozzle broken away; also the handle. Very shallow body, ribbed in its upper part; cornucopia-shaped lug at one side, and four holes. Rounded nozzle ... 17 April 1939

[Agora Object] L 4503: Lamp Fragment with Molded Decoration

The front part of the upper body preserved, with the start of the nozzle. Mold made; concave top; on the upper body and side of the nozzle, maeander in relief. Traces of black glaze. Gray clay. Type XII ... 6-13 August 1947

[Agora Object] L 4558: Lamp Fragment

Fragment from base, preserving beginning of handle and of nozzle. Base ring, in which "alpha" in relief with base towards nozzle. Dull black glaze, somewhat worn. Buff clay. Type XVIII (?) of Corinth ... 7 April 1949

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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.

[Agora Deposit] B 22:5: Pit

Pit in east Terrace. Cf. container ΝΝ 109 ... 1st. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] C 19:3: Bronze Casting Pit in House H, Room 13

Located in House H, Room 13 on the lower northwest slope of the Areopagus ... Late 2nd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 4:1: West Chamber

Cistern-chamber on the northwest side of Kolonos Agoraios, 10 to 12m west of the end of the Hellenistic Building. Dimensions at bottom 2.50m x 2.75m. The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two ... Use filling early 1st-2nd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 11:4: Drawshaft

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

[Agora Deposit] D 12:2: Drawshaft

Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ. The filling of the 46/ΙΑ cistern shaft, with the exception of a little Roman at the top, was the same as the bottom fill of 44/ΙΓ - late Hellenistic, running ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:5: Cistern

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.

[Agora Deposit] E 11:2: Well

Well cut through cistern at 40/Θ on Kolonos Agoraios (E 11:1). Two use periods plus an upper dumped fill from which the following objects: B 319, I 3994, SS 5745, T 1235. Coins: 6 April 1936 #18-#21 7 ... First half of 1st c. A.D. 4th-early 5th c. A.D.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:3: Drawshaft, "Kybele Cistern"

Cistern-shaft at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic. Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment

[Agora Deposit] E 15:3: Cistern

Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F 15:2: Cistern

A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493). Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] G 14:2: Well

Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C. 100-70 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] N 19:1: Cistern

Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] N 20:4: Mask Cistern

Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C. Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] Q 13:1: Manhole

Dumped fill in a shaft which served as means of access leading to a water channel south of the Stoa of Attalos. Coins: 29 June 1933 #1 (disintegrated) 29 April 1936 #1-#3 4 May 1936 #1 ... Early 1st c. A.D.

[Agora Deposit] R 21:2: Cistern at 37/ΛΒ

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.