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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 ... Athenian Imperial coin type, Svoronos (1923), pl. 92, nos. 8-21, Dionysos by Alkamenes; seated right, thyrsos in one hand, kantharos in other, altar in front of him. ... Athens New Style coin Head (1888), BMC Attica, pl. 12:8, dated ca. 90 B.C. ... Our seal is not an exact duplicate of either of the coin types known (cf. BMC Attica, pl. 12:8. Richter, fig. 631).

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[Agora Object] H 163: Fragmentary Amphora or Olpe with Graffito

Eleven pieces comprising two non-joining fragments. To Young's publication of six pieces are now added five more, two of which help to complete to inscription. Part of the side wall with reserved panel ... 600 B.C.