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[Agora Publication] Greek Lamps and Their Survivals

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

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[Agora Object] L 533: Two Nozzle Lamp

Lamp with two opposite nozzles and solid projection in center of infundibulum. Rounded body, sloping in towards top. On rim, narrow band round large filling hole; set off from body by deep unglazed groove ... 18 April 1932

[Agora Object] L 635: Lamp Fragments

Two fragments from very large lamp. One fragment preserves most of one side of body, with start of nozzle and handle. Narrow rim, sloping inwards, set off from nearly vertical-sided body by deep groove ... 20 February 1932

[Agora Object] L 1678: Lamp with Collar

Mended from two pieces; the bottom preserved, the nozzle, and part of the wall at the right. The collar broken off at the top. Lamp with high flat base, slightly convex side wall, and narrow rim, tilted ... From late in 2nd. quarter of 4th. century B.C.-early years of 3rd. century B.C.

[Agora Object] L 3632: Two Nozzle Lamp

Nozzles and rim chipped; otherwise intact. Deep-bodied straight-walled lamp on substantial ring foot. Hollow tube through body; long nozzles, opposite each other. Rim gently curved; set off from wall by ... 30 December 1938

[Agora Object] L 4739: Lamp Fragment

From bottom of large lamp with hollow tube in center. Deep groove on bottom. Black glaze inside and out, except for bottom, which has a thin glaze wash. Pinkish-buff clay. Type 26A of Agora collection ... 22 June 1950

[Agora Deposit] D 17:3: Cistern at 65/KH

Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northwest room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Part of the same system as D 17:4 and D 17:5, the chambers connected by long tunnels ... 300-250 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F 16:1: Demeter Cistern

Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C.