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| Straight piece with lower end preserved. Tripartite.
Very micaceous pale buff clay, chalky white fugitive ground.
No comparable handle for height and width among Agora lagynoi. Catalogued December ... May-June 1947 |
| Handle and part of neck preserved. Rope handle runs from shoulder to neck. Thin neck.
Hard, very micaceous, light reddish-brown clay (5YR 6/3) with small red, white and black inclusions. Hard, matte ... 1938 |
| Made up from many pieces; restored in plaster. Low ring foot; broad angular shoulder; flaring rounded lip; grooved, slightly twisted handle. Broad bands of red around foot and shoulder, and on lip.
Buff ... 9-12 February 1937 |
| Much restored in plaster: rim and most of upper body. Ring foot and squat body, upper and lower convex sections meeting at an angle. Long narrow neck; rising twisted handle, from below lip.
Sandy buff ... 23 May-5 June 1936 |
| Handle, part of shoulder and minor part of lower body missing. Very broad, shallow body, double convex. Trace of white slip and of red-orange bands of decoration around shoulder and lower body. Twisted ... 9-15 May 1935 |
| Flat angular lagynos handle, ribbed down the middle, and part of narrow round neck preserved.
Stamped on top of handle: Α Τ Τ Α Λ Ο Υ
Buff clay with pink core; heavy white slip over all, somewhat peeled ... 24 June 1946 |
| Mended from many pieces; part of shoulder, including most of angular edge, missing. Restored in plaster. Shape and decoration as P 14426 (Χ 983), except that ring foot has almost flattened out and that ... 9-12 February 1937 |
| Lip, handle and many pieces missing; one non-joining piece of bottom; restored in plaster [P.H. 0.20]. Base ring; side wall and inside shoulder meet at sharp angle.
Creamy slip, worn. Band of matte red ... 18 February 1937 |
Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level.
Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 3rd-2nd century B.C and Roman date. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
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. |
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 |
| Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill.
Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C. |
| 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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