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Three-stepped foot. Stamped decoration: palmettes on shoulder and three horizontal lines on body with large pal- mettes above and below. Junction of body and toe unglazed.
Similar, Copenhagen inv. 480: ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
One handle, top of the other, and small part of rim restored.
Scraped groove in resting surface; conical underside. High, thin stem. Pointed lower body. A: spearhead necklace with thin band and single ... Ca. 275 |
Most of one handle, top of the other, and parts of wall restored.
Broad resting surface with scraped groove; concave underside.
High, thin stem. Elongated body. A: charm necklace with thin band with ... 285-275 |
Three-fourths of rim and half of body restored; one handle and most of the other missing.
Scraped groove in resting surface; concave underside. High, thin stem. Pointed body with groove or offset at base ... 300-285 |
Small areas of rim and upper body restored; most of handles missing. Holes in handle stubs from ancient repair.
Scraped groove in resting surface; concave underside with nipple.
Low, concave stem. Rounded ... Ca. 300 |
Rim and part of upper wall missing.
Nippled underside. Contiguous ribs with double borders. On floor very small old-man or slave mask on rectangular plaque. A: spearhead necklace with thin band with row ... 290-275 |
Part of one handle and parts of body restored.
Scraped groove in resting surface; concave underside with nipple.
High, tapering stem. Ribbed lower body. Cylindrical upper body.
Rising, flaring spurs ... 285-275 |
Half of rim, parts of wall, and part of one handle restored.
Scraped groove in resting surface; conical underside.Groove at base of body and scraped groove below handle attachment. Slightly incurved rim ... 290-275 |
Rim undercut; fusiform body on very high flaring ring foot; the vertical handle set on the shoulder curve and the horizontal handles far down on the wall.
Close, P 874 G 16:1 Hesperia, XXI, 1952, pl ... Context ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Half of upper body and one-third of lower body restored; foot, stem, and handles missing.
Ribbed lower body with scraped groove and square molding at base. Projecting, overhanging flange below rim. Grapevine ... 275-260 |
Intact except for chip in rim. H. 0.009; diam. 0.07. M. Lang, Graffiti in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 14), Princeton 1988, p. 16. fig. 44 (detail).
Filleted male head to left. Relief contour ... Third quarter of the 5th century B.C. |
One handle and part of rim missing; overfired.
Flaring foot; flat underside with string marks. Angular profile.
Flaring rim. Handles are triangular lumps of clay at rim. Dull black-to-brown glaze.
Similar: ... 325-275 |
| A clay disk has been stamped with an oval seal.
Obverse: bust of Athena right, wearing a Corinthian helmet and aegis, long curls.
Reverse: plain convex back with finger print.
Pale pinkish buff clay. West ... 1 June 1933 |
All of mouth and neck, much of body restored in plaster and painted. Thin, black glaze on inside. Much of the glaze on the lower part fired red. Some abrasion to left of panel. H. to top of handle 0.245; ... Ca. 440-430 B.C. |
Bolster Krater: Pergamene.
Rim fragment.
Projecting rim, strongly convex on top. Top surface has pair of scraped grooves at either edge. At left, dolphin leaping right, with incised outline filled in ... Context of 250-175 |
| Three joining pieces give the full profile and diameter. Domed lid with flat topped knob; flat projecting rim, no flange. Two grooves at upper part of the main lid and around the top of the rim.
Dark ... 29 May 1951 ... Agora V, no. H 16, p. 48, pl. 8. |
| Upper part of a female figure, right, wearing thin chiton, necklace, and checkered sphendone [sic], bends her head slightly to receive a wreath with which she is being crowned by a figure to the right ... 1930 |
Handles missing.
Slender body on disc foot; tall slightly spreading neck with heavy angular rim. Hard fairly clean red clay, gray at sur- faces. Decoration in red and white for bands on neck, shoulder ... Context ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Handle and end of nozzle broken off.
Slightly curving sides; deep groove around rim. Horizontal band-handle.
Clay: fine reddish, black glaze except in groove . Assembly Place, below Great Wall ... 1931, 1932 |
Complete except for the end of one nozzle.
Large lamp with ten nozzles on a low base; wide vertical strap handle.
Concave rim around filling hole, with a groove around its outer edge.
Entirely covered ... 1 September 1936 |
Four non-joining fragments: a shoulder and wall fragment of lebes with start of handle; b + c, and e of stand, d of foot. Stand strengthened with plaster and painted. Glaze fired brownish on lebes; flaked ... Ca. 410 B.C. |
Mended with small missing pieces restored in plaster and painted. Lip offset on inside; foot offset on underside. Glaze slightly abraded on handles. H. 0.074; diam. of rim 0.18; W. with handles 0.238; ... Ca. 510-500 B.C ... Robertson, AJA 62, 1958, pls. 6, 7, figs. 1--5; Guide (1962), p. 161 and pl. 16; D. B. Thompson, An Ancient Shopping Center (Agora Picture Book 12), Princeton 1971, fig. 67 (I); Agora XIV, pl. 87; Beck, Album, pl. 60:307 (I); ARFV:Archaic, fig. 48; Guide (1976), p. 245, fig. 128; C. ... Camp, The Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens, London 1986, pl. 8, opp. p. 135 (I); LIMC III, 1986, p. 460, no. 428, pl. 349 (B), s.v. Dionysos; p. 782, no. 310, s.v. Eos; Human Figure, pp. 142--145, cat. no. 51; Robertson, AVP, p. 83, fig. 72 (A); M. |
| Woman's head. NS-53 Carl Roebuck, Nb. No. 8.
Area B. 427 86-6-14, 87-16-15, 87-16-16 ... 19 May 1938 |
Mouth and much of side wall restored in plaster.
Very plump. One band of white paint on the shoulder.
Hard red clay, fired gray on the surface. Thin-walled and carefully made.
Cf. Agora V, under no ... 1932 |
| Broken at rim and handle gone.
Black glaze pitcher. Oscar Broneer, Nb. No. 5.
Well M, 17.75-18.40m. 27 ... 5 June 1937 |
Fragment from the upper part of a small bowl with vertical high rim and curved shoulder.
Red burnished ware. Red gritty clay.
The shape like the gold bowl in the Benaki Collection.
Late Neolithic ... 24 February 1953 |
| A: a large letter chi (X) in wreath.
Small crescent at upper right.
B: plain. Entered as coin no. 7, for the day. Above bedrock, and below level of mosaic. Leica ... 11 May 1932 |
Front of head only preserved, with a little hair.
Head with almond eyes. Straight hair brushed back from forehead; looped over the ears.
No modelling in face. Faint traces of red on mouth and eyes.
Buff ... 30 April 1936 |
A bit of the rim and about two-thirds of one of the saucers preserved. Pinkish-buff clay, black glaze, much worn.
Cf. P 815.
Cf. Agora XII, no. 1364. Late fill. Leica ... 1954 |
| Inscribed fragments.
Treasure record of Athena.
Fragment Π 39, broken all around; right edge preserved; face much flaked away.
Twenty lines of text preserved; stoichedon, except for some irregularities ... After 346/5 B.C. |
| Four joining fragments preserve ca. one-fourth of rim. Deep plate. Broad groove well below rolled rim outside.
Metallic black glaze. Catalogued 7 March 1991. 92-3-34, 92-3-35 ... April 1932 |
| Fragment from the base of a stemmed cup or chalice.
Inscribed on upper surface (partially scratched out?):
Unglazed Attic clay.
Cf. P 15555, P 15379, P 31077. West side of Mint, under floors. 2282 ... 3 July 1978 ... Agora XXV, no. 131, pp. 9, 11, 16, 48, fig. 7. |
| From wall of a closed pot, apparently mold made, decorated with rosettes and herringbone bands in relief.
Hard light brown clay; the exterior shows traces of a silver or lead-gilt wash.
ADDENDA Decayed ... 2 June 1933 |
| From a large plate. Shallow triple groove around center of floor; inside, stamped palmette.
Pinkish clay with gray upper and lower surfaces. Black glaze. Foundation of east wall of house Q. Leica DA 15087 ... 2 April 1935 |
| Fragment of inscription; inscribed on two adjacent faces within wreaths.
Left side and bottom, rough picked, preserved; elsewhere broken.
Citation.
On the face, inscribed within a wreath.
On the side another ... 3rd. century B.C ... Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 154, no. 48 ... Agora XV, no. 95, p. 100. |
Parts of lip and upper wall, and both handles missing. Foot more convex profile; body more elongated than any previous example; lip slightly more flaring than P 12149 (ΙΙ 318). Normal piercing.
Soft ... 11-14 March 1938 |
Handle and part of lip missing. Plump pear-shaped body; tall narrow neck; high ring foot; trefoil lip, strap handle from lip.
Dull black glaze somewhat pocked. E-W Street south cut A, fill 4 at east ... 24 October 1949 |
Dull black glaze.
Other large bases are listed by E. L. Smithson, Hesperia 30, 1961, p. 167, under no. 46. The Hymettos base referred to there is the present one, but it is in the Agora Museum, not the ... Late Protogeometric |
The front half is preserved of the mold for the top of a rayed lamp with knob.
On the exterior top surface an incised letter "kappa". On either side a string-groove.
Pinkish-buff to yellow clay.
Type ... 23 April 1940 |
Fragment of lip and rim of an amphora. Inside of rim is reserved with a bird to left. Inside of neck glazed. Lip outside reserved with vertical bands of glaze; below, black glaze. Incised: details of wing ... 13-25 January 1936 |
Front part of head with high headdress and part of neck.
Left side of headdress broken away; top and right edges present smooth surfaces.
Large eyes; features set high in fat face. Hair a grooved roll ... Publication: 300-350 A.D. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face and part of right side preserved; also sloping top with cutting at edge of break.
Probably a Herm.
Seven lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Finished ... 13 June 1947 ... Hesperia 32 (1963), pp. 48-49, no. 11, pl. 16 ... Agora XVIII, no. H392. |
Female head in profile. NS-2 Carl Roebuck, Nb. No. 6.
Well A. 84 Leica ... 5 April 1938 |
Fragment of body only.
Fairly shallow body; ridge and two grooves around concave rim.
Clay: fine gray (burned); black glaze inside and out. Assembly Place, filling of Period III ... 1932 |
Shiny black glaze making some sort of figure. Carl Roebuck, Nb. No. 6.
Well A. 77 ... 4 April 1938 |
Fragment from rim and wall. Overhanging rim, flat on top; a plain moulding 0.02m. below it on exterior. On all interior surfaces to top of rim, vertical and horizontal scored lines.
Pink-buff clay.
... 5-9 August 1968 |
Inscribed fragment.
Broken from lower left (proper) corner of a relief with part of a wreath preserved. Raised border.
Within the wreath, names.
Pentelic marble. Found in demolition of the modern house ... 3 March 1959 |
| About half of a shallow cup skyphos; torus foot; slightly out-turned lip; one handle preserved.
In the reserved handle zone, a draped wreathed figure seated right; branches in field; palmette to either ... May-June 1954 ... Hesperia 55 (1986), p. 26, no. 48, fig. 16 ... Agora XXIII, no. 1564, pl. 104. |
| Handle and small bits missing.
In form of grotesque head with mouth for nozzle. Large filling hole on top of head. Part of pierced lug on left side and points of attachment for handle at back.
Black glaze; ... 8 July 1949 |
| Fragment from floor. Heavy base ring with groove at upper edge.
Stamped decoration: lozenge-shaped stamps on low bases between two bands of rouletting, each band bordered by double grooves.
Dark brown ... 31 March 1937 |
| From a large shallow bowl or deep plate. Horizontal outward projecting rim, set off from body by a wide convex band, grooved on both sides. On rim, rope-like pattern; then stamped egg pattern, the eggs ... 4 April 1935 |
| Three joining fragments give part of the floor and ring foot of a large gray ware plate. Two wide bands of rouletting between pairs of grooves; between the two, the tips of a large palmette(?) indifferently ... 5 June 1947 |
Female head with large staring eyes.
Tightly waved hair, surmounted by a high rectangular headdress, with three palm-branch motifs on its front.
Red paint on face.
Buff clay.
Late Roman. ca. 3.60m. below ... 27 February 1936 |
| One quarter preserved; broken at both ends. Mended from six fragments.
Interior wall straight, exterior concave with slightly outturned base. Light buff-orange slip on inside and outer part of base.
Very ... 16 May 1936 |
Left to right. -hΟΕΦ.-
Part of a personal name such as ho Εφ[ίππου]. Altar area. -hΟΕΦ.- |
Mended from several pieces.
Broken below neck; some of face and hair missing.
High headdress with three projecting knobs across front at top. Decorated with herringbone pattern front and back.
Gouged style ... May 1939 |
| Lid fragment with relief decoration. First interpretation: plaque with relief decoration.
One small piece does not join.
On the surface of the plaque are curving ridges bounding plane bands, carrying, ... 28 May 1932 |
Intact, except for chip from lip. Plump ovoid jug on small ring foot; shoulder narrow, mouth broad with slight flare to plain lip. Vertical strap handle from lip to shoulder. Body from shoulder to near ... 7 June 1939 |
| About one-quarter preserved giving profile except center. Rolled rim.
Stamped palmettes and rouletting on interior.
Pinkish-buff clay. Metallic black glaze.
Attic. Piers 15-16 west, bottom of 8th to ... 14 July 1949 |
| Fragment of a large coarseware open vessel. Inscribed on both sides.
a) Outside:
b) Inside:
Buff Attic clay with inclusions.
Cf. P 15555, P 15379, P 31078. West side of Mint, under floors. 2282 ... 3 July 1978 ... Agora XXV, no. 130, pp. 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 48, fig. 7. |
| Fragment from top.
Solid double grooved handle. On rim, leaf pattern. On discus, lion, seated right.
Unglazed.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type XXVIII of Corinth collection. Well. Late Roman well. Leica, 95-16-9a ... 23-24 April 1935 |
Nozzle and forepart missing.
Angular side wall; out turned rim; horizontal band handle.
Thin metallic glaze on inside and wall outside.
Heavy and crude.
Type 6B of Agora collection.
Cf. L 3590 (OA 521) ... 13 April 1935 |
| Handle missing; end of nozzle broken off.
Ribs on upper body and a small rough unpierced lug; small slightly depressed top; simulated ring foot.
Inscribed on line of shoulder, either side of nozzle: "ΙΕΡΟΣ ... 12 June 1939 ... AgoraPicBk 9 (1963), fig. 16 ... Agora IV, no. 626, p. 160, pls. 24, 48 ... Agora XXI, no. G 16, p. 54, pl. 31. |
| Lower left corner of a votive relief broken at top and right side. Back, bottom and left sides preserved.
Front surface chipped. Preserved are a small female figure, perhaps a child, facing right and, ... 27 July 1978 |
One chip from perimeter missing. Flat bottom; top lightly conical. Pair of opposite tie-holes 0.023m. apart.
Soft pinkish-buff clay. 5/Δ'* Geometric cremation burial; pyre. Leica PD 2774-109 ... 15 June 1967 |
| Lip, one handle and part of neck missing. Foot ring, enclosing a large raised circle; body, ridged from wheel, tapering to foot ring; neck, smoothed, tapering upward.
Painted in red on neck:
Light red ... 10 June 1932 |
Rim fragment.
Egg-and-dart pattern in upper zone. Pithos. Leica PD 331 ... 1932 |
Part of rim, shoulder, and one handle preserved, but nothing of lower body or base.
Shoulder rounded directly into high, straight rim. Inside glazed as far as preserved except for a reserved band below ... LG I |
Upper part of double convex body and much of horizontal flange missing.
Pinkish-buff clay; no trace of sizing or paint. Well I, Late Roman fill. Leica ... 19 April 1948 |
| About one-half preserved; something broken off from top of low knob. Deep domed lid with horizontal and vertical flanges. Two bands of cut-out decoration: triangles and rectangles, and a band of small ... 19-20 March 1938 ... Hesperia 48 (1979), p. 214, pl. 67a, no. II:16 ... Agora XXXI, p. 99, pl. 18. |
| Fragmentary, profile complete; restored in plaster. Almost cylindrical pot narrowing in lower half to a flat base; everted rim with offset beneath.
Red-buff clay with bits, hard. No glaze. Interior "combed" ... May 1950 ... BSA 68 (1973), p. 398, n. 21, no. B 16 ... Agora XXXIII, no. 365, fig. 59, pl. 48. |
Stem, base and much of lip and body missing. Lip curls outward sharply. Flange at middle of body pierced by two holes presumably for hanging.
Unglazed orange clay. Road cut south of Southwest Fountain ... 15 July 1967 |
| Two non-joining fragments.
a) Mended from two pieces, preserves part of rim and body and one handle.
b) Part of floor and body.
From a shallow bowl with heavy ring foot and flat rim to which a double pierced ... 6 July 1946 ... Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 212, pl. ... Agora XXXII, no. 893, fig. 28, pl. 48. |
| A few fragments missing from body. Medium-sized body set on narrow ring foot. Body, shoulder and neck form continuous curve. Neck flares slightly; its top surface is deeply grooved (to aid in sealing the ... 23 May-10 June 1939 |
Neck and one handle preserved in one piece.
Graffito on neck:
Slightly micaceous reddish-buff clay.
Attic Type. Catalogued 1966. Trench Θ well. Leica ... 1965 |
Inscribed fragment of early Christian Epitaph.
Back and front faces preserved; one edge curving rough; other edges broken.
Pentelic marble. Found at a late Roman level in front of Bouleuterion Propylon, ... 10 June 1931 ... Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 48, no. 29 ... Agora XVII, no. 1093, p. 193. |
NM 16053
Ring foot and double rolled handle. Two narrow glaze lines interrupted in front by a zigzag column. Double glaze band down outer face of each handle section.
Shiny brown glaze, in places shading ... LG I |
| Much mended; part of the body missing. Fusiform. Around the neck, one white painted band; around the body, two bands, the lower one very faint.
Dull gray clay, pink at the core. Unglazed.
Cf. Agora V, ... 1 June 1932 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Surface badly worn.
Four lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 638/10, over the east end of the South ... 14 January 1936 |
| Fragment from shoulder and the lower part of neck.
Letters inscribed in the wet clay:
Pink to cream clay. Surface cream. Previously North Basement-Jar Fragments, Block IX (late 2nd and 3rd c. AD) in ... 16 May 1932 |
Numerous joining fragments. Missing are fragments of lip and body and all of handle. Low foot ring, low plump body, trefoil mouth. Neck unglazed.
Thin, much worn wash brown to black, with matter adhering ... 5-9 August 1968 |
Lip fragment. Rim flat on top and bounded inside and out by a shallow groove.
Coarse, red clay, containing large white particles. Unglazed. Cistern. Draw shaft. Leica PD 350 ... 1932 |
| Fragment from bottom. Small grooved circle scraped free of glaze around bottom. Parts of incised lines of pentagon network on wall.
Attic. Fairly good glaze inside and out, somewhat worn. Square Building, ... 14 July 1949 |
| Mended from eleven pieces. Neck and shoulder. One handle completely missing, also over half of rim.
Graffito on neck:
Micaceous light red clay. Heavy smear inside. Catalogued 1966. Finished Trench Θ ... 1965 ... Hesperia 69 (2000), no. 48, p. 43, fig. 16 ... Agora XXI, no. Ha 3, p. 59, pl. 32. |
| Two non-joining wall fragments with black glaze on both sides (fragment b from bottom of bowl, beginning of foot?). Inscribed on both fragments letters from the name and demotic of Themistokles (?):
... 17 July 1996 |
| About one-half of wall, with handle missing. Ring foot with flat resting surface. Very slightly incurved wall. Rim slopes inward slightly. Handle attached at rim. Glazed: interior except for central reserved ... 27 June-5 August 1972 |
Inscribed block of early Christian Epitaph.
Broken away at the bottom and along the edge of the left side; on the right side a moulding.
On the top end a dowel cutting. At the lower end of the inscribed ... Summer 1933 ... Sironen (1997), p. 196, no. 137 ... Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 48, no. 28 ... Agora XVII, no. 1083, p. 192. |
Inscribed fragment of early Christian epitaph.
Back preserved, smooth.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Finished Found in wall of the modern house 642/9, at the north foot of ... 28 November 1938 ... Sironen (1997), p. 354, no. 355 ... Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 48, no. 31 ... Agora XVII, no. 1097, p. 194. |
Inscribed fragment of early Christian Epitaph.
Back and left edge preserved. Back sawn; lower guide lines lightly scratched.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in demolition ... 22 February 1939 ... Sironen (1997), p. 364, no. 367 ... Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 48, no. 30 ... Agora XVII, no. 1096, p. 194. |
| Flat round lid, plain on one side. On the other, two grooves around the edge; on one side two holes, on the other three beside a long vertical lug.
Pinkish buff clay, slipped. Cistern. Lower Hellenistic ... 1 June 1935 |
| Two joining fragments preserve some of the wall of the krater; reserved band inside. Head and some of upper body of a cloaked youth, right; upper right corner of fragment preserves part of a disk with ... 11 May 1939 |
| A large cornucopia with a band of leaves near the bottom.
The back flattened.
Traces of pink and yellow over white.
Buff clay, reddish at break. Stoa of Attalos, Piers 16-17 E. Cutting strosis bottom of ... 16 April 1952 |
Neck and handles preserved. Small projecting rim. Finger impression on lower handle attachments. Roughly made.
Graffito under one handle:
Red clay, brownish surface. Mica and white bits. Catalogued ... 1965 |
Shoulder fragment.
Graffito:
Drab clay. Smear inside. Catalogued 1966. Trench Θ well. Leica ... 1965 |
Neck and rim fragment.
Graffito:
Micaceous reddish clay. Smear inside. Catalogued 1966. Trench Θ well. Leica ... 1965 |
Intact.
Flat bottom and slightly convex lower body. Inside all glazed except for a reserved dot at center of floor and three bands below lip.
Black to brown glaze.
Cf. Kerameikos V, 1, pl. 98, inv ... LG I |
Half the body missing. All glazed inside and out except for dot on floor and reserved bands at rim.
Most probably a kantharos like Kerameikos IV, pl. 21, inv. no. 2026. The vessel could also be a one-handled ... Late Protogeometric |
Fragment from neck with start of shoulder.
Monogram scratched at base of neck:
Buff clay, gray at core. Unglazed. Rectangular cutting. 3962 Leica ... 3 June 1953 |
| The fragment is from the upper left corner of a probably inscribed pedimental stele. No letters are preserved; the figure of Athena, facing right, is broken away below the knees. She wears a chiton girded ... 25 May 1933 |
| Inscribed fragment of stele.
Top and right side preserved, elsewhere broken.
Stele with broad horizontal band at top, surmounted by low pediment with antefixes at ends.
Four letters remain, part of a fifth ... 10 February 1938 |
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