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[Agora Object] P 18761: Thymiaterion Lid Fragment

Fragmentary stand [or lid?] with cut-outs. Lower part preserved; fragments of wall missing. Small stand with rim at base, sides tapering inward in gentle curve. Sides pierced with row of triangles. Scraped ... May 1947

[Agora Object] P 23079: Black Glaze Lid

Intact save minor chips especially at edge. Domed lid with plain rather high knob. Roughly made and crooked. Buff clay; somewhat metallic glaze. Hellenistic fill over water basin north of Drain B and ... 20 April 1953

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[Agora Object] P 31877: Black Glaze Inkwell Fragments

Two non-joining fragments, a) preserving part of hole at top. Spherical body decorated with incised pentagons. Ridge around hole at top. Shiny black glaze outside only, mostly missing. Catalogued 15 February ... 1937

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[Agora Object] P 31873: Black Glaze Lid Fragment: West Slope

Knob and part of upper section of lid preserved. Small lid with pear-shaped knob, flat on top. Scraped groove at junction of knob and wall. Tan vertical lines on wall. Shiny black glaze outside only; ... 1957

[Agora Object] P 3916: Black Glaze Lid

Knob missing, and parts of rim. From a nearly flat, wide rim, the lid slopes upward sharply toward the central knob. A sharp rib and a groove mark the outer edge of the lid; a second rib and groove at ... March 1934

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[Agora Object] P 3175: Inkwell with Incised Decoration

Mended from many pieces; round in shape. No handle or neck existed. Around the small round mouth, a groove. Incised net decoration. Dark red glaze. Well, in north cistern arm. Group E. Leica, 91-34-26, ... 5 March 1934

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[Agora Object] P 15153: Black Glaze Lid

Intact. Plain heavy knob on top; plain down-turned rim. Dull black glaze on exterior; buff clay. Cistern, container 3, upper fill. 365 Leica, 92-1-34, 92-11-16 ... 9 May 1939

[Agora Object] P 5724: Black Glaze Vessel Fragment

Body of beehive shape, broken off above. Projecting ring foot. The body is covered with horizontal grooves. Half of a small hole through the side wall is preserved at the upper break. Metallic black ... 20 May 1935

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[Agora Object] P 18798: Lid Fragment: West Slope

Black glaze knob for large lid. Broken off at neck and the base missing. Joined to P 18001. Firm black glaze, rather dull, and with metallic splotches. Around the shoulder, carefully rendered in thinned ... 1939, 1947

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[Agora Object] P 18001: Lid: West Slope

Mended from many pieces; less than a quarter of the rim preserved; the crowning member (knob?) missing. Tall concave-conical lip with broad spreading rim, nearly flat, set off from the rising central part ... 30-31 May 1947

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[Agora Deposit] N 18:3: Cistern at 77/M

Cistern at 77/Μ on lower north slopes of the Areopagus. Bottom diameter of 2m connected by tunnel to cistern M-N 18:1. Only stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 240. Latest coin dates about 200 ... 3rd c. B.C.-196/190 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] K 14:1: Collector's Dump

Pottery Deposit at 57/ΙΔ (also 57/ΙΣΤ and 63-66/Κ-ΚΕ). Contents of pit range from Mycenaean to Turkish; apparently the dump of a modern antiquities dealer ... Modern Context

[Agora Deposit] M 18:10: Well

Well at 66/ΛΖ. Homogeneous fill. 14 stamped amphora handles. Rhodian and Knidian handles find parallels in Middle Stoa building fill. Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one ... 225-175 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] H 16:4: Pithos

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.

[Agora Deposit] F 15:2: Cistern

A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493). Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] N 21:4: Satyr Cistern

Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated. Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] C 20:2: Koukla Factory and Related Fills

In area West of the Areopagus. Fills with many figurines and molds, possibly from a terracotta factory. Twelve stamped amphora handles; no long-petal bowls; Type 54 A lamp Coins: 31 May 1939 #11 1 June ... Mostly 200-150 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:1: Cistern

Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C. Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D.

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[Agora Deposit] M 21:1: Komos Cistern

Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill. Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C.

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[Agora Publication] Agora XXIX: Hellenistic Pottery Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material

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