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[Agora Object] P 17529: Incense Burner

Fragments of rim and body missing; one fragment does not join. Open bowl with flaring sides and rim; high conical foot. Brownish clay; dull green surface over which a white slip, now much flaked. Traces ... 3rd. c. A.D ... "The mender reported that when he heated the fragments to glue them they gave off an odor of incense 'livano'."

[Agora Object] P 21418: Incense Burner

Rim missing all around, and most of the foot, but full profile of stem and foot preserved. Restored in plaster. Flange at the join of bowl and stem. Moulded foot, flat resting surface. White slip over ... 4 June 1951 ... Incense Burner

[Agora Object] P 15530: Incense Burner Lid Fragment

Fragment from the center of a slightly domed lid with attachments for small loop handle. Lid pierced with holes. Gritty reddish-brown clay; unglazed. Well 15, late Mycenaean. 1746 ff. Leica ... 28 March-3 April 1939 ... Incense Burner Lid Fragment

[Agora Object] P 13384: Thymiaterion Stand

Broken above and below. Small tapering stand for a lamp or an incense burner (?) broken over half way up by a large bead. Pinkish buff clay; the bead black; horizontal bands of black glaze around the ... 3 June 1938 ... Small tapering stand for a lamp or an incense burner (?) broken over half way up by a large bead.

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[Agora Object] P 15010: Red Figure Oinochoe

From the wall of a round-bodied oinochoe; glazed to neck inside, thinned, and brown below. Three joining fragments preserve the figure of Nike, standing to left, and bending to sprinkle incense on a small ... 9, 11 May 1939 ... Three joining fragments preserve the figure of Nike, standing to left, and bending to sprinkle incense on a small altar. ... Inscribed in added color diagonally across the field above Nike's head: to right of figure above: below: Also in faded color are the altar flames and the grain of incense which she holds in her right hand.

[Agora Object] P 13928: Vessel Fragment

From wall or floor of an open pot; outside are preserved the ends of two lug-like attachments set parallel and close together. Gritty pinkish clay, gray at core; mottled burnished slip inside and out, ... 24-26 April 1937 ... ADDENDA Matson suggests lugs are really part of base, as Neolithic incense burners (SAI Jul. 1964).

[Agora Object] I 6909: Altar Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Broken below and behind. Rather more than half the incense bowl at the top is preserved. Decoration at top corners missing. At left edge of die, part of a garland in relief. An iron ... 27 May 1959 ... Rather more than half the incense bowl at the top is preserved.

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[Agora Object] A 2410: Monument Fragment

Large end broken all around. Small end has joint surface with anathyrosis at back. A round hole in small end 0.05m. from joint surface contains remains of iron pin. The omphalos-shaped small end curves ... February 1954 ... Addenda: Represent incense burner/plemochoe with penetrated lid.