[Agora Object] L 1484: Lamp

Small lamp with central collar. Complete except for part of interior collar. High ring base, slightly convex side wall. No handle. Round body, short nozzle, collar inside over hole in bottom. Pinkish buff ... Later years of 3rd. quarter of 4th. century -250 B.C.

[Agora Object] L 4721: Lamp with Central Tube

Most of central tube and disk missing; foot chipped. Scraped reddened groove on rim. Inside glazed. Flaky unevenly fired black glaze. Resting surface reserved. Type VII of Corinth collection, type 27A ... 22 May 1950

[Agora Object] L 4642: Miniature Lamp

Part of central tube broken, otherwise intact. Raised base; short nozzle flat on top; wide central opening. Groove on rim. Black glaze, much flaked. Type 27A of Agora collection. Square Building, Construction ... 2 August 1949

[Agora Object] L 4645: Lamp with Central Tube

Chip from back and fragment of central tube missing. Raised base, steep walls, narrow rim. Dull reddish-brown to black glaze. Type IV (late version) of Corinth collection, type 27A of Agora collection ... 8 August 1949

[Agora Object] L 3784: Lamp with Central Cone

Base, hollow central cylinder, one stubby nozzle and some of sides preserved. Cylinder projects well above narrow flat rim. Black glaze somewhat flaked. Type 27A of Agora collection. Cistern, lower fill; ... 13 May 1939

[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 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