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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. ... On Introd. p.L. Athens New Style coin Head (1888), BMC Attica, pl. 12:8, dated ca. 90 B.C. ... B.C.; the cistern was perhaps abandoned and filled after the sack of Sulla (86 B.C.).