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Front of trefoil mouth broken away, otherwise intact. Low ring foot, pear-shaped body tapering toward top. Single flat vertical handle.
Dull black to red glaze.
ADDENDA Traces of west slope decoration ... 14 April 1934 |
| Single rim fragment. Projecting rim, strongly convex on top. Top surface has a pair of scraped grooves at either edge. Between them: at left, a dolphin leaping right, with incised outline filled in with ... May-June 1947 |
Complete except for mouth and chips from wall; mended and restored in plaster. Flaring moulded ring foot; ovoid body; high thin neck; twisted rope handle. Occasional grooves on body, shoulder and neck; ... May 1971 |
| Broken all around. Curved shoulder of jug, oinochoe, or small amphora. Scraped groove at top of shoulder. Incised egg and dart with white point within eggs.
Dull brown glaze outside, red inside. Fine ... 24 June 1949 |
| Rim fragment. Overhanging rim of a large bowl or krater. Rim nearly horizontal on top, with ridge and scraped groove at outer edge, scraped groove and glazed groove at inner edge. Overhanging, moulded ... 14 May 1940 |
| Fragments a) and c) preserve part of curved shoulder, suggesting a spherical body; fragment b) preserves part of narrow slightly concave neck.
Soft buff clay like that of the white ground lagynoi. Except ... 9-12 February 1937 |
| Most of underside, half of body, handle and mouth missing. Body partly restored. Moulded ring foot; flat resting surface; lower wall straight, flaring out to meet convex shoulder wall at sharp angle; groove ... August 1957 |
Part of cistern system with mouths at 47/ΛΒ, 60/ΜΖ and 51/ΜΓ.
Last 1.50m. of 47/ΛΒ probably cut in modern times, contained modern fill in bottom. Coins:
10 March 1934 #2-#7
12 March 1934 #9-#14
16 March ... Hellenistic and modern. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D. |
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. |
Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C. |
| 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. |
| 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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