[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 263

Part of handle restored. Flat bottom; strap handle. Traces of an added red line at level of handle. Close, from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 2207: Hesperia, IX, 1940, p. 250, ... 550-525 B.C ... Close, from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 2207: Hesperia, IX, 1940, p. 250, fig. 53, 312.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 922

Flat underside. Wall thickened top and bottom. Reserved: underside and top of rim. Glaze fired red and peeled. Cf. Athens, Agora Museum, Acropolis North Slope A-P 1543 (Well A): Hesperia, IX, 1940, p ... 525-500 B.C ... Glaze fired red and peeled. Cf. Athens, Agora Museum, Acropolis North Slope A-P 1543 (Well A): Hesperia, IX, 1940, p. 252, fig. 55, 316.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1411

Mouth and handle missing. Jug of Vraona Shape (ABV 443-444). Concave bottom. Unglazed, except for strokes on the body and shoulder. Athens, Agora Museum, Acropolis North Slope A-P 1036: Hesperia, VII, ... Early 5th c. B.C ... Unglazed, except for strokes on the body and shoulder. Athens, Agora Museum, Acropolis North Slope A-P 1036: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 192, fig. 28, is very close.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1823

Fragment; rim, wall and handle. From a large deep basin; outcurved rim. Glaze inside, on rim and for a band outside. Also early, from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 993: Hesperia, ... Context, ca. 550-525 B.C ... Also early, from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 993: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 181, fig. 19, 30.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1925

Bottom missing. Pared rim; deep shoulder. From the same deposit, P 13811; and cf. from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 1130: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 220, fig. 54 (Well M, use filling), ... Context to ca. 500 B.C ... From the same deposit, P 13811; and cf. from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 1130: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 220, fig. 54 (Well M, use filling), somewhat broader but with the same low shoulder.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 217

Low ring foot. Vertical ribbing joined at the top by arcs. Two light grooves on lower part of wall. Double handle with shouldering. Very close are P 24155 Q 15:2 and P 10111 M 20:3-L. Cf. also Athens, ... Ca. 420 B.C ... Cf. also Athens, Agora Museum, PN-P 257: Hesperia, I, 1932, p. 132, fig. 19, 1.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1507

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 ... Another, fragmentary, also from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum A-P 2532, came from the same well and carries the same stamp; the pattern, Hesperia, XV, 1946, pl. 24, 2.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1216

Lid missing. Low flaring ring foot. Horizontal ribbon handles, flange for lid. Reserved: resting surface, underside, handle-panel and top of vertical rim. Added red: band outside just below handles, two ... 525-500 B.C ... Cf. from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum A-P 951: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 181, fig. 18.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1350

Bowl only. Small bowl with rim offset by two grooves and with a vertical inset lip, to receive a lid. Reserved: top and outer edge of lip, junction of bowl and stem. Glaze fired brown. Similar, with ... Ca. 500 B.C ... Similar, with a heavy ring at the top of the stem, which is banded like 1353, Athens, Agora Museum, from the Acropolis North Slope, A-P 2477: Hesperia, IX, 1940, p. 180, fig. 21, 74.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1288

About a third. Lid missing. Full profile, save for edge of lip. Tripod foot, concave wall. Inset flange for lid. Glazed inside, on outside of flange and horizontal top of wall, a band round the middle ... 550-525 B.C ... Cf. the slightly later pyxis, from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum A-P 1007: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 192, fig. 28, small and with banded wall.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1502

Tightly rolled rim, undercut; small ring foot; thick strap handles, arched from base of neck. Brush-banded, black to brown, on rim and body; neck, handles and lower edge of foot unglazed. Similar but ... Context ca. 575-535 B.C ... See also from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum A-P 1174: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 183, fig. 21, right.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1101

Flaring ring foot; strap handle, the attachments set close together on the wall. Offsetting below neck. Rim rounded on top. Foot reserved beneath. Added red: on rim, one band at offsetting, two lines below ... 550-525 B.C ... For a contemporary example with different mouth, see Athens, Agora Museum, from the Acropolis North Slope A-P 2423: Hesperia, IX, 1940, p. 251, fig. 54, 310.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1730

Handle restored. Domed askos. Shallow saucer mouth; sharp angle at shoulder; disc foot slightly concave beneath. Pale buff clay and surfacing. Corinthian. Close, from Corinth, C-39-269, from a well-filling ... Context, second quarter to last quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Similar, from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum A-P 788: Hesperia, IV, 1935, p. 300, fig. 47, found with a stemless cup A-P 138: op. cit., p. 299, fig. 45, 191.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 491

Moulded ring foot; raised rings on underside. Reserved: the space inside the innermost ring, with two circles and dot. Groove above junction of wall and foot. Decoration inside: eleven-point central star ... Ca. 430 B.C ... For the hatched design on the interior of cups, cf. 494; Athens Acr. 1272: Langlotz, pl. 90; Athens, Agora Museum, from the Acropolis North Slope, A-P 325: Hesperia, IV, 1935, p. 295, fig. 42, 177; Paris, Louvre CA 643(5).

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 564

Flaring ring foot; concave lip. Reserved: foot and handle- panels, also a thin line on the rim. Added red: a line inside and outside the rim just above the level of the handles. Graffito on underside: ... Ca. 520 B.C ... For the added red line on the outside of the rim cf. Athens, Kerameikos inv. 1416: Arch. Anz., 1940, cols. 329-330, fig. 12, center and, from the North Slope of the Acropolis, Athens, Agora Museum A-P 1021: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 196, fig. 31, 27; both of them quite similar in shape to 564.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1824

Shallow basin on broadly flaring ring foot; flat-topped rim with deep vertical face. Heavy fabric; glaze on top of rim, on handles and on foot; thin inside. For practical purposes a shallow tub rather ... Context, ca. 500 B.C ... For practical purposes a shallow tub rather than a lekane; on another unusually broad-based example from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 2424: Hesperia, IX, 1940, p. 251, fig. 54, 325, the shape of the body is nearer the normal.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1445

Short flaring rim, a single groove below it; ovoid body; handles rolled and slightly flattened; ring foot. Light red clay, traces of buff surfacing outside; glaze wash inside and on the rim. 1444 and ... Context ca. 500-480 B.C ... For a slightly different version with a well-made echinus foot cf. from the Acropolis North Slope, Athens, Agora Museum, A-P 1121: Hesperia, VII, 1938, p. 218, fig. 52; there also the interior glazing seen on 1444 and 1445.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1533

Squat ovoid body on ring foot; flaring rim with interior flange; rolled handles. Attic household ware; glaze wash inside, and traces of a glaze band below the handles. On a somewhat more slender example ... Context ca. 435-425 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 ... Type VII of Corinth collection, type 26A of Agora collection ... Howland in Athens. Deposited in Agora Museum.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 648

Handles missing. Foot in two degrees with reserved resting surface; under- side reserved with four circles and dot. Scraped groove just above foot. Decoration inside: five linked palmettes round central ... 390-380 B.C ... The excavations in the Sanctuary of the Nymph, south of the Acropolis, have produced similar early 4th century transitional pieces: Athens, Acropolis Museum 1956 NAK 69, 71, 72, and 75. Their absence from the Agora seems to be fortuitous.

[Agora Object] L 3633: Lamp: Maker's Mark

Intact. Deep watch-shaped body; decoration in relief on its top; a leaf and shield on either side. Small concave discus, set off from the top by a groove. Triangular nozzle; double-rolled handle, rising ... 30 December 1938 ... Type XVIII of Corinth collection, type 50B of Agora collection. ... Howland in Athens. Deposited in Agora Museum.

[Agora Object] H 250: Squat Oinochoe

NM 16176 Ring foot. On handle, ladder pattern interrupted by a panel with parallel verticals. Shiny black glaze. Probably later than the examples from the Isis Grave, C.V.A., Athens 1[1], 3[3], 8-10, ... LG I

[Agora Object] H 26: Mug

NM 16062 Flat bottom. Ladder pattern on beginning of handle at top; three glaze bands on rim inside. Black glaze, brown where thin. Like the mugs from the Isis Grave, C.V.A., Athens 1[1], 4[4], 1-4 ... MG II

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1721

Rim and wall. One-handler (?). At edge of break below, a little of a raised edge. Suspension hole in rim. Light red clay with small white bits; warm buff surfacing. Matt black glaze wash on rim, just ... Context ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1022

Ring foot; rilled rim, sloping inwards. Two raised rings on underside. Concave moulding on undersurface. Decoration on floor: small central circle, around this, band of enclosed ovules within palmettes; ... Ca. 430 B.C.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 78

Shoulder fragment with part of ring at junction with neck. Max. dim. 0.095. Woman (head with hair tied up with fillets) to left before a loutrophoros-hydria (mouth, start of vertical handle, top of neck) ... Ca. 450 B.C.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 716

Mended with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably most of the mouth and handle. Glaze misfired reddish brown on back; abraded on inside of handle at join of neck. H. 0.181; diam ... Late 5th century B.C ... Webster, Art and Literature in Fourth Century Athens, London 1956, pl. 2; C. ... Mattusch, Bronzeworkers in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 20), Princeton 1982, cover; W. ... (British Museum Occasional Paper no. 48, 1985) [ pp. 43--57], p. 54, fig. 4; C.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1265

Lower part of wall and all of ring base. On underside of floor, three concentric circles with central dot. Most of the glazed fired red on the inside and on the outside below the figures. P.H. 0.15; diam ... Ca. 430 B.C.

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[Agora Object] S 547: Head of Female Figure

Over life-size, broken away at neck; nose and chin badly broken; mouth and ears slightly. Minor fractures. Hair parted at center and falls down behind as if held in net. On top of the head the marble rises ... 3 April 1935

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 603

Mended from many fragments, with missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notable among them the left horizontal handle and part of the wall below it. Glaze fired greenish around left handle; abraded ... Ca. 430 B.C.

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1682

Small Plate. Part of rim missing. Very small, flaring ring foot; rounded resting surface; flat underside. Foot pierced for hanging in such a way that griffin is upright. Shallow plate with convex-concave ... Context of 115-50

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1526

Two non-joining fragments of lip, bowl, and floor. Glaze abraded slightly on outside at rim. Max. dim. a) 0.14, b) 0.035; est. diam. at rim 0.15; diam. of tondo 0.117. R. Lamberton and S. Rotroff, Birds ... Probably mid-5th century B.C ... Rotroff, Birds of the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 22), Princeton 1985, p. 17, fig. 34 (mispoised). ... D 7 (ARV2 763, 3; Addenda 286), which depicts a huge serpent springing from feathery reeds, hissing and about to attack a man; also, Louvre CA 483 by the Hesiod Painter (ARV2 774, 3; Paralip. 416, 3; Addenda 287), on which a Muse plays a cradle kithara next to a stand of wispy reeds; the reeds behind the seated woman on side B of a bobbin by the Sotheby Painter, Athens, N.M. 2350 (ARV2 775, 3; Addenda 288); and the lekythos in Kansas City, Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum of Art 31.80 by the Eretria Painter (ARV2 1248, 8; Addenda 353; Lezzi-Hafter, Eretria-Maler, p. 344, cat. no. 240, pl. 157:f, g): there, the child Kephalos appears in a garden with goddesses.

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[Agora Object] I 532: Dedication Fragment

Fragment from right side of inscribed block. The right side is picked fine; the face dressed smooth, other edges broken. Dedication mentions the Museum, the Univeristy of Athens. Parts of two lines of ... Early 3rd. century A.D.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1407

Mended with small missing pieces restored in plaster and painted. Lip offset on inside; foot offset on underside. Glaze slightly abraded on handles. H. 0.074; diam. of rim 0.18; W. with handles 0.238; ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... Thompson, An Ancient Shopping Center (Agora Picture Book 12), Princeton 1971, fig. 67 (I); Agora XIV, pl. 87; Beck, Album, pl. 60:307 (I); ARFV:Archaic, fig. 48; Guide (1976), p. 245, fig. 128; C. ... Camp, The Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens, London 1986, pl. 8, opp. p. 135 (I); LIMC III, 1986, p. 460, no. 428, pl. 349 (B), s.v. ... Paul Getty Museum Journal [forthcoming]).

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[Agora Object] I 3055: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Inscribed face only preserved. The diagonal cutting across the upper right corner is clearly a cutting and not a break, but in all probability post-dates the inscription. Seems to be ... 24 June 1935

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[Agora Object] P 6814: Red Figure Lekythos Fragment

Fragment from shoulder of squat lekythos. On shoulder, the upper part of a woman to right in front of Doric column. Behind the column a palmette; above, a band of egg and dot. The woman thrusts out her ... 24 February 1936

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[Agora Object] P 5262: Red Figure Lekythos

Squat lekythos. Heavy rounded body with ring foot, one handle and a narrow neck; the handle and lip missing; a small hole broken in the back. On the body, opposite handle, and on an egg-pattern band for ... 4 April 1935

[Agora Object] PNT 65: Plastic Vase: Satyr

The head and right side of the figure remain. A wreathed and bearded satyr, stands erect, bracing himself to support some heavy object on his left shoulder. His border was undoubtedly the drunk Dionysos ... Early fourth century B.C.

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[Agora Object] P 18010: Black Figure Child's High-Chair

Profile complete; missing fragments restored in plaster. A heavy flaring base, with a rounded upper part; between the two a floor, pierced by a large hole. Carrying holes in the base, front and back. At ... 27 June 1947

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[Agora Object] P 14431: Bowl with Lead Seal Attached

Several pieces, including chunks from sides and rim, missing. Flat bottom; straight sides; flat-topped projecting rim. Orange-buff clay. Light slip. Surface much worn. On side wall, just below rim, a ... 9-12 February 1937