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Exploration of area of small early house walls on the NW slopes of Areopagus. Considerable deposits of late 6th-early 5th c. B.C., but some later (all periods) and some early levels, disturbed.
Objects ... Late 6th-Early 5th c. B.C. |
| From edge of one-half of a double disk or bobbin(?). Around outside, a branch with berries in added red. Within part of uncertain scene. Underside reserved, reddened. Relief contour. Either near Civic ... December 1953 |
| Head and shoulders of woman, right; peplos, earring, necklace, knitted(?) sakkos. No relief contour. Added clay for ornaments; white for flesh; the dress once painted in an added color.
Pinkish-buff ... (1953) |
| Rim fragment from a large plate, neatly moulded. Part of ring foot with flat resting surface reserved. On rim, between reserved bands, ivy wreath, the leaves reserved, the stems and berries white. Late ... 1949 |
| Fragment of pyxis lid(?); domed top decorated with a rinceau in thin clay paint. The edge of the broad projecting flange reserved and stamped with an egg pattern.
Good black glaze inside and out; brownish ... 14 March 1939 |
| Fragment from center of floor of small cup, stemless. At center beneath, a neatly moulded glazed ring; within it, a second ring, surface broken. Glaze on the wall outside with a reserved band between it ... 1947 |
| Much chipped around the edges. Walls concave, spreading above and below to form broad flat projecting rim and ring foot, respectively. Groove around inner edge of rim, separating it from top, which curves ... 22 April 1948 |
| Wall fragment; a horizontal groove, unglazed, inside. In relief, a male figure (bearded?), nude except for a cloak over his shoulder, riding right on a quadruped. Herakles? Below the figure, the tip of ... 1947 |
| Wall fragment. Head and shoulders of a satyr; body in front view, head profile to right; left hand rests on the head. White fillet round the head. Other white fillets in the background. No relief outline ... October 1950 |
| Six joining fragments preserve part of rim and wall to base of figured zone. Angular wall, flat-topped slightly projecting rim. On the wall, most of a large sphinx, seated right. Incised blob rosettes ... 31 May 1939 |
| Shoulders and chest of nude(?) male figure; arms and neck broken off. Black glazed lekythos neck sprouts from back; white on the figure; black glaze on the neck. North of Roman bath, brown fill with Byz ... 7 June 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves part of the rim and upper wall with both attachments of a horizontal handle. Broad flaring rim separated from nearly vertical wall by a groove and a ridge outside. On the upper ... 1947 |
| Small piece from shoulder preserving part of cock, left, and of spear and hand of Athena.
Incision for details of cock and of hand. Hand in added white; traces of white spots on cock, and of red for his ... 1947 |
| Broken all around; fragment from just below rim. Upper border, Lesbian leaf separated by drops; below, chariot race, right. Parts of two chariots preserved, with Nike as charioteer in the first.
Outside ... 1949 |
| Single fragment from wall of a large cup. Exterior: lower half of draped female figure, right; to right, foot of a second figure; to left, part of floral ornament.
Interior: a bit of the reserved edge ... August 1947 |
| From a large bowl? On outside, band of bead and reel and egg pattern in relief.
Gray clay; gray to black glaze; much flaked on inside. Heavy fabric. Provenience unknown. Leica ... August 1947 |
| Mended from three pieces. Wall fragment of a biconical pot, a projecting keel at the middle, and the upper (or lower) part with a double wall. The edge of a handle (or spout) broken off near one extremity ... 1948 |
| Small fragment from shoulder. Upper border, encircled palmettes; below, head and wings of Nike, left, the wing tips encroaching on the border. Firm white with brown over-painting for the figure's face ... 1 October 1947 |
| A single fragment, brοken all around. Part of one of the columns is preserved, with the inscription painted alongside it: Σ Η Late Roman fill. Leica ... October 1947 |
| Fragment from the wall of a bell krater, preserving part of a draped figure and part of a staff. The drawing glaze has fired black; the background glaze, and the glaze on the interior, red. Late Roman ... October 1947 |
| Bottom edge preserved in part.
A raised edge at bottom of mould; above the forefeet of a bull, with an unknown object (serpent ?) before them.
Heavy, coarse, reddish-buff clay.
ADDENDA: Fore and hind ... 18-19 April 1939 |
| From the floor of a heavy plate. Head and shoulders of draped figure right. Very poor condition; added white practically disappeared from face and part of clothes. Agora area, context unknown. Leica ... (February 1957) |
| Most of foot and center of floor preserved, with start of walls. Moulded ring foot.
Interior, mantel figure, right. Other figures on sides A and B. No relief contour. Glazed and reserved circles on underside ... March 1957 |
| From the floor of a very large plate; two moulded rings beneath; fish plate? Parts of four figures: leg of small standing figure, white, Eros. Knees and legs of draped seated female figure; standing female ... March 1957 |
| Wall fragment. Male head, wreathed and bearded, left. Partial relief contour. Surface of Panathenaic Way; Agora excavations. Exact provenience unknown. Leica ... March 1957 |
| Handle from large bowl or kantharos; on the top, dolphin in relief.
Pink clay with badly flaked dark red to black glaze. Surface. Leica ... 13 May 1947 |
| Part of rider, right, and at the left upper corner, legs of horses galloping behind; the latter in larger scale. Unglazed inside.
Buff-pink clay. Provenience unknown. Leica, 80-43-4 ... September 1954 |
| Single fragment preserves some of sharply out-turned rim and of wall. A draped standing figure facing left; facing him part of drapery of a second figure, the hand holding "discus" decorated with a cross ... 1 December 1954 |
| Man right, in himation; most of head, upper front part, right hand. Part of a second figure on the break to the right. Use of red. Part of a glazed band preserved inside.
Buff-pink clay; glaze somewhat ... May 1955 |
| Broken all around and at back. Mold for slightly convex object; bowl? Trace of edge of wall at bottom. Two figures preserved and traces of others at sides of fragment: man in short pleated tunic, playing ... 4 May 1939 |
| Three fragments preserve nearly half the circumference of the lid, with the central knob, chipped. Slightly domed lid with broad flat rim; vertical flange, set well in, beneath. High knob with flat projecting ... 4 May 1939 |
| Mended from many pieces; parts of wall, rim and one handle missing; restored in plaster. Deep skyphos with rounded walls, drawn in slightly at lip. Broad flaring foot; moulded rim at junction of foot and ... 1933 |
| Broken all around; trace of start of stem preserved below. Fragment from floor of kylix; at left is preserved a bit of the reserved border of the tondo design. Nude figure crouching on right leg with left ... 19 June 1939 |
| Fragment from shoulder of closed pot (amphora?) broken all around. Preserved is upper left corner of a reserved panel with a purple band outlining it.
Inscribed in glaze along the top of the panel: ... 5 June 1939 |
| Two joining fragments from shoulder; broken all around. Below a tongue pattern, two heads, right; white for the flesh of the first. The border is composed of groups of three tongues (one red between two ... 5 June 1939 |
| Part of mold of left foot for large figure, broken off at ankle.
Foot finely modelled, with long toes.
Dark red micaceous clay, gray at core as if from burning.
ADDENDA C. G: Suggests from metal original ... 1956 |
| Tragic mask of youth, preserved from eyes to chin.
Hellenistic type (?).
Light buff clay. Surface find. Leica, 81-33-26 ... 27 April 1957 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Top, sides and bottom (?) are preserved.
Back has been re-worked.
Dedication to Hadrian.
Six lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in wall of the modern house ... 28 October 1938 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Part of the top preserved, and perhaps part of the right side.
Four lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon.
Space between lines, two including: 0.027m.
Space between letters, ... 6-11 February 1939 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Original top and moulding preserved, with rough picked back, worn.
Small letters on taenia at top of moulding.
Hymettian marble. Surface find. Leica ... 4 May 1957 |
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