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| Howland, R. H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of “closed deposits” at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B.C ... 1958 |
| The front part, with the nozzle, broken away.
Shallow type with no base; the down sloping rim continuous with the walls. Glazed on the top of the rim, and the bottom of the lamp inside, the glaze fired ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. |
One fragment from the back, with part of the rim, bottom and side, and the start of a horizontal handle.
The other fragment, mended from two pieces, has a bit of the rim and side, with a trace of the start ... August-September 1932 |
Fragment of bottom of lamp, incised on outside.
Type 21A of Agora collection.
Late fill. Leica, XXV-77 ... 23 April 1937 |
| Intact.
Flat bottom with concavity at center. Shallow body with incurving rim. Strap handle. Rim, handle, nozzle and inside covered with black glaze; bottom and sides unglazed polished surface.
Type IV ... 4 March 1938 |
| Horizontal handle broken away; otherwise intact.
Bottom rises to point in center of floor; sharply convex sides, overhanging rim. Small nozzle with large filling hole, encroaching considerably on rim ... Late years of 6th c. - ca. 480 B.C. |
Part of rim and bits of bottom missing.
Flat bottom, rising to a small point at the center of the floor; rounded very low profile; narrow rim; spoon-shaped nozzle with large wick hole.
Black glaze inside ... 25 May 1938 |
| A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C. |
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