[Agora Object] L 1322: Lamp

Vertical band handle broken away; the nozzle broken and mended; otherwise complete. Plain lamp, with depressed top. Large pierced knob on the left side. Rather high foot. Wheel made. Poor black glaze ... 10 March 1934

[Agora Object] L 4051: Lamp

Intact save for chips. Concave bottom and narrow sharply sloping rim; angular body, unpierced lug at one side; fluked nozzle. Black to reddish-brown glaze over all. Type XII of Corinth collection, type ... 20 May 1940

[Agora Object] L 322: Lamp

Tip of nozzle missing. Double convex body, with concave top. Wheel made. Rising vertical band handle, broken at back; long nozzle. Slightly rising bottom, with central raised disc; base indicated by groove ... 6 February 1932

[Agora Object] L 157: Lamp

Flat rim, sunken 0.008m. below top of body. Double convex body, with large pierced knob on the left side. Round nozzle; end broken. No handle. No base; the flattened surface becomes slightly concave toward ... 13 July 1931

[Agora Object] L 1808: Lamp

Vertical strap handle missing. Unpierced knob on one side of double convex body. Small, slightly sunken top. Flat bottom; no base. Gray to buff slightly micaceous clay; traces of dull black glaze, nearly ... 225-125 B.C.

[Agora Object] L 2544: Lamp

Handle broken, nozzle missing. Plain lamp with angular body, sunken top, band handle, and simulated ring foot. Pierced lug on left side. Wheel made. Black glaze once fairly good, now largely peeled. Type ... 11 June 1936

[Agora Object] L 3107: Lamp

Handle missing. Angular body; unpierced lug on side; blunt nozzle; flat bottom. Graffito on top of nozzle. Black glaze much chipped. Type XII (early spreading-wheel made) of Corinth collection, type 34A ... 8 June 1937

[Agora Object] L 4756: Lamp

Tip of nozzle broken away. Unpierced knob. Dull black glaze. Type XII of Corinth collection, type 34A of Agora collection. From tumbled man-hole of tunnel to East of Stoa Shop XIV. Stoa fill or earlier ... 27 July 1950

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[Agora Object] L 461: Lamp

Two small pieces missing, from rim and from body. Wheel made. Double convex body. Depressed top. Short nozzle, slightly turned up at fluked ends. Base simulated by a groove round the bottom of the body ... 16 March 1932

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[Agora Object] L 4615: Lamp

End of nozzle missing, otherwise intact. Sunken discus. Groove around rim; pierced lug; high ring foot. Thin dull glaze, somewhat flaked. Type XII of Corinth collection, type 34A of Agora collection ... 13 July 1949

[Agora Deposit] E 6:1: East Chamber at 69/Λ

Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos ... 175-125 B.C.

[Agora 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.

[Agora Deposit] P-R 6-12: Stoa Construction Fill

Stoa Construction Fills (n.b. for all Stoa and pre-Stoa fills later than construction filling of Square Peristyle see P-R 6-12) Over 100 stamped amphora handles in fill. No long-petal bowls, but one fragment ... Before ca. 150 B.C.

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[Agora 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