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North of Eleusinion: Fill in Room 3 of Roman Building. 614 sherds (6 miniature shapes, 20 intrusive sherds).
Objects : terracottas; loom weights; spindle whorls; disks; handmade tray; lamps.
Early ware ... First half of 6th c. B.C.-Mixed Fill to ca. 480 B.C. |
Filling associated with construction of Poros Building. A small amount of fragmentary pottery found in the clay filling of the original floor; perhaps deposited as late as ca. 425-400 B.C. Cf. 18:4 and ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. or later. |
Well 12: Archaic.
It lies on a rocky ledge about thirty meters north of the Klepsydra, just east of the Panathenaic street. In spite of its depth, it produced little pottery and its contents were of slight ... 6th c. B.C.? |
| Fragments were found a little above and below this depth, but most came from it. Solid foot.
Few bands of decoration; one lotus at neck, two incised lines and stamped decoration on body.
Clay reddish ... 13 May 1938 |
Upper part only.
Below the shoulder-ridge a band of running spirals; on the wall two zones of noughts and crosses.
For the shape see the Kerameikos and North Slope pithoi, p. 193, note 4 and 1507. For ... Context to ca. 500 B.C. |
One-piece pithos. Below the shoulder-ridge a zone of lotus flowers, set end-to-end in pairs; on the wall, two zones of noughts and crosses.
Another, fragmentary, also from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, ... Context ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Neck and wall fragment.
From a one-piece pithos. A nought-and-cross band below the shoulder-ridge, a second further down the wall; no impressed patterns ... Context ca. 575-535 B.C. |
Neck and shoulder fragment.
Pronounced shoulder angle; probably from a neck-pithos. Below the shoulder-ridge a band of tightly wound spirals separated by pairs of drops.
For the shape see p. 194, note ... Context ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Shoulder fragment.
Below the ridge a zone of running spirals loosely wound and separated above and below by small x's.
A closely similar piece, P 25001, comes from Q 13:5, context of ca. 575-540 B.C ... Context ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Handle fragment.
At the base of the handle a stamped rectangle enclosing a pair of spirals. Thin pithos fabric; from an amphora? ... Context ca. 575-535 B.C. |
Handle fragment.
At the base a stamped meander. Thin pithos fabric; from an amphora? ... Context, late archaic accumulation, to ca. 450 B.C. |
Shoulder fragment.
Below the ridge a triple guilloche, the middle cable squared off to form a zone of lozenges; raised dots in the loops or squares.
For the same scheme in Siphnos see B.S.A., XLIV, 1949, ... Context, late archaic accumulation deposited ca. 460-450 B.C., or later. |
Shoulder fragment.
Three double guilloche strands with dots in the loops. Sketchy work.
Close, possibly from the same pot, P 20876 D 17:10. The guilloche patterns on Attic pithoi may vary widely, as ... Context 475-450 B.C. or later. |
Shoulder fragment.
Below the ridge, a band of reversing lotuses, a bud at the base of each flower. The stamp was too wide for the band so that the downwards flower was sheared off at the calyx.
From ... Context ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Shoulder fragment.
From a closed pot of moderate size. At the base of the neck, hanging palmettes stamped one by one. Corinthian tile fabric; smooth creamy slip.
For palmettes on Corinthian relief ware ... Context ca. 600-550 B.C. |
Neck and shoulder fragment.
Upper wall at an angle to lower, and shoulder-ridge squared off; probably from a neck-pithos. Below the ridge, a sunken band with a row of framed rosettes; the rosette at ... late archaic accumulation deposited ca. 450 B.C. See p. 25, note 56. |
| Detail of relief decoration on pithos ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Pithoi from the North Slope. AP 2536 at left, AP 1127 at right ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Pithos fragments with relief decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lamps and loomweights etc. from rectangular rock-cut shaft ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
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