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[Object] L 1296: Lamp with Central Collar

No handle, and a small knob on the left side. Plain curving sides. Glazed red. Τype IV (late variants Group) of Corinth collection, type 27B of Agora collection. Brown fill, west of Roman floor. Leica, ... 28 February 1934

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[Object] L 459: Lamp Fragment

Small lamp with open socket for stand. Rim and nozzle broken away. Fragmentary. Rounded body; apparently continuous with rim. No handle; small solid knob on left side. Bottom, rising slightly toward center ... 17 March 1932

[Deposit] G 6:2: Cistern East Chamber

The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C.

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[Publication] Agora IV: 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