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Intact. Low ring foot; sharply angular shoulder; twisted handle.
Buff clay. White slip. A broad and two narrow red bands above the shoulder angle. Cistern, middle fill. Leica PD 1091-125 ... 11 February 1937 |
| Full height preserved; walls fragmentary. Restored in plaster. High plain base ring, separated from vertical sides by projecting flange.
Decoration in brown: on flange, crosshatching; above this, garlands ... 22 March 1937 |
| Lower part only preserved. Tall pyxis with nearly vertical sides, spreading slightly at lower edge; substantial ring foot, set well in from edge of wall. Surface very badly preserved. In bottom zone, a ... 9-17 March 1938 |
| Only small fragments are preserved from the rim of bowl and lid. Identity of fabric and diameter make their association very probable. The bowl had an almost vertical lip with a ledge inside to receive ... 1932 |
| Top not preserved; many fragments missing (P.H. 0.218). High ring foot; straight sides above a wide flare just above floor line.
White slip. Decoration in matte orange to red; on the flare, a bead and ... 18 February 1937 |
| About half of lip and part of side missing. A straight-sided jar with ring foot set in from side; inset lip with ledge outside to hold cover.
White slip, dull but firm, on outside. Decoration painted ... 11 February 1937 |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C. |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
| Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997 |
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