Broken at top and back.
Soft yellow poros with very smooth sawn front surface; slightly less smooth back and bottom. Anathyrosis joint surface at side. Same series as A 1267 (Η' 907). Altar of Pitt?
Poros ... July 1947
Broken at top and sides. Also small joining pieces (not included on photograph).
Same series as A 1266 (Η' 906). Altar of Pitt?
Poros. From wall S.W. of Peribolos. Leica, XXVII-80 ... July 1947
Fragment from side of large pot; decorated with two broad stripes of red to black glaze.
Inscribed on outside:
Red brown clay with white bits; outside buff at surface. Pocket in bedrock, Geometric ... 5 June 1939
On inside, traces of thin brown glaze.
Graffito on outside.
Heavy fabric, light buff clay with bits.
Ostrakon? Second layer. Leica, 5-73, 7-422 PD 420, PD 1133-6(D 32) ... 11 February 1935
From a very heavy coarse pot, unglazed, of highly micaceous pink clay, fired gray at the core; slipped outside where the letters are scratched.
Well 1. Leica, 5-73 PD 1133-4(D 8) ... 26 February 1935
Fragment from wall of a large coarse pot with brown glaze on outside only.
Incised on the inside: Metroon, drain cut, layer VIII. 6th. c. down to middle. 886 Leica PD 1133-4(D14) ... 13 April 1935
Piece from large closed pot, buff clay, inside unglazed, outside covered with thin striped black glaze.
ADDENDA Ostrakon? Too early? Sherds Protoattic-VI c. Cf. T 1486 (ΘΘ 183). Beside pithos; early ... 6 May 1937
Wall fragment from a large closed vase with thin red glaze on outside.
Lightly scratched on inside: Imbedded in foundation of north wall of archaic house to north of Tholos. Leica ... 21 February 1938
Wall fragment from a heavy coarse pot with brown glaze inside and out.
On outside: North of Tholos, west part, layer II. Found with bronze shield. 2504 Leica ... 4 March 1938
Top of Course XVI of cella wall on the north side. Block F. Cf. plan Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), p. 199, fig. 7. Photographed for B. H. Hill ... east Horizontal (normal) ... June 1946
Top of Course XVI of cella wall on the south side. Block M. Cf. plan, Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), p. 199, fig. 7. Photographed for B. H. Hill ... north Horizontal (normal) ... 1 & 15 June 1946
Top of Course XVI from cella wall with dowel and pry-holes for Course XVII. Block J. Cf. plan in Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), p. 199, fig. 7. Photographed for B. H. Hill ... east Horizontal (normal) ... 1 & 15 June 1946
A fragment from a light roofing tile, flat on one side, slightly concave on the other; covered on the concave side with reddish glaze. Letters scratched in dry clay on glazed side when the tile had already ... 24 May 1933
T. Leslie Shear, director of the Agora Excavations, 1931–1945 ... The articles in Hesperia were gathered as a tribute to his memory. Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1940
Survey pits in the railroad cut in order to find the other corners of the Altar of the Twelve Gods. Cf. Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 357 ... west ... 5/4/1934
Obverse: Harpocrates seated left on lotus flower.
Right arm bent with finger to lips; scourge under left arm. Field completely filled with inscriptions. Edge bevelled smoothly, also covered with an inscription, ... 6 April 1932
Large amphora with broad sloping shoulder and small plain toe; rolled rim;
double handles to upper shoulder; groove on shoulder about 0.03m. above handle attachment; peg of toe like Rhodian but short ... June 1937-June 1938
Complete and entire save for a puncture in the side; groove ca. 0.07m. long, 0.05m. below rim; tip extends 0.05m. below ring. Shape similar to SS 3213.
Capacity (corrected from 29.875 wheat, VG 1939) 30.500; ... 2 May 1934
Amphora with two handles;rolled vrim and naetly collared toe; groove from change(?) of throw [ ... ] base of neck; toe 0.05 long below ring.
Capacity: (VG wheat 14.viii.56) 33.460; Capacity: (VG wheat 1939) ... 9 June 1939
Rectangular stamp.
South Russian.
Cf. Pridik (1917), p. 103. Cxt: acc I EV(VG)*Par: [ ... ], cf Pridik1 1917, p103
for dev of characteristic hdl-stp(VG)*Dte: [ ... ] Group I,
date 320-250 BC(VG ix.78)*Class: ... 19 May 1939
Identical in fabric and from similar, if not same amphora, are part of neck and rim with handle attachment and a toe; rim flares slightly with very sharp lip and is set off from neck by a deep groove ... 15-26 May 1937
Part of rim preserved.
Light red, micaceous clay; very pale slip.
Cf. Dumont (1872), p. 387, no. 3, pl. X, 13. Dim: W 0.0375*
Par: Dumont 1871, p387, nr 3 and Pl X,13* Red sand under road. Κολοφώνιον ... 2 March 1934
A circular stamp; bust of a Byzantine emperor, with round disk (sun?) at his right, and triple-branched sceptre at left; traces of letters at his left.
Cf. SS 9085, SS 9434, SS 9235. Par: SS 09085, SS ... 2 April 1936
From an amphora of very late Roman type with slightly curved sloping handle roughly round in section.
Light brownish clay full of air-holes; unglazed.
Circular stamp, only partially struck on handle; ... 22 May 1939
Whole jar mended from many pieces, complete save one handle and fragment of body; restored in plaster.
Capacity: (VG wheat 1939) 21.250.
Micaceous reddish-brown clay. Photo: print was sent last year to ... 9 May 1939
Part of neck and top of one handle preserved.
Micaceous pinkish clay; light slip.
Stamp on neck beside and below handle; bust of Byzantine emperor with sceptre at left; “B” in field beside; legend around; ... 9 June 1939
Part of neck preserved.
Slightly micaceous reddish clay with light brown slip.
Stamped on rim; bust of emperor with three-branched sceptre in his left hand; broken below; coin type.
Cf. SS 9295 (BB 501) ... 16 June 1939
Small poros altar still in situ on the West Slope of the Acropolis by the Beule Gate. Closely similar in material and workmanship, it may give an idea of the scheme of the Agora altar ... M. Crosby ... ca. 1949
Small piece of thin sheet zinc, approximately rectangular.
One corner preserves original edge.
Identified as zinc by M. Farnsworth. Since photographing, about half the fragment has been cut off, to be ... 12-15 April 1932
Restored plan of the west side of the Agora (see also PD 1208). Cf. Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 397, fig. 1 ... Opposite of p. 390 in publication. Horizontal (normal) ... 1946
