[Agora Object] L 4134: Lamp Fragment with Graffito

Front half including nozzle, and strap handle missing. Low base; black glaze overall. Incised on side wall. Type 24C of Agora collection. Layer II. 572 Leica, L-78 PD 646, 635-81, 1133-20 ... 22 July 1946

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[Agora Object] L 4440: Lamp

Complete except for the broad horizontal band handle, the tip of the nozzle, and chips. Low round-bodied lamp with small thick raised base. Rounded insloping rim. Around the top, outside the rim, three ... 12 April 1948

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[Agora Deposit] B 18:4: Pyre

Pyre in House T, Room 1, Layer 5-6 (RSY=Pyre 3) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus. First quarter 4th. c. B.C. Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging ... 400-375 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