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[Agora Object] IL 2007: Iron Smithing Hearth Bottom

Large lump of iron slag. Part of a rounded convex surface preserved, rough surface otherwise. Iron slag removed from the bottom of a smithing hearth. Finished Fill north of Wall 6. 8077 ... 26 July 2006 ... Iron Smithing Hearth Bottom

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[Agora Object] IL 2003: Iron Smithing Hearth Bottom

Complete? Half sphere-shaped lump of iron slag, formed during iron smithing and removed during cleaning. Rounded side is relatively smooth. Three more slag hearth bottoms kept in lot BZ 1558. Finished ... 19 July 2005 ... Iron Smithing Hearth Bottom

[Agora Object] L 4357: Lamp

Fragments of body missing from one side. Discus, thin petalled rosette; rim, panelled, with three dots at the sides; handle, cross-hatched above, doubled-grooved below. Reverse, two concentric grooves ... 3 October 1947 ... Ash fill near hearth.

[Agora Object] L 2178: Lamp: Maker's Mark

Broken, disk hacked out (?). Handle pierced; double grooved above and below. Rosettes and spirals on rim, with herringbone panels. Signed above palm branch, "ΛΕ", within two circular grooves. Unglazed ... 31 March 1936 ... West of wall D, beside hearth.

[Agora Object] L 2177: Lamp: Maker's Mark

Broken, the disk apparently deliberately hacked out, and part of the lower wall and bottom broken away. Spirals and dots on rim. Handle semi-pierced. Signed beneath: part of one letter above a palm branch ... 31 March 1936 ... In hearth, west of wall D.

[Agora Object] L 4414: Lamp Fragment with Graffito

Part of the bottom of the lamp, with a little more than half of the raised base, concave beneath. Trace of the start of rays on the rim preserved. Incised on the bottom. Red to black glaze much peeled ... 1 April 1948 ... House N: east of hearth; red fill under layer 5.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 284

Wall fragment, slightly flaring. Glaze cracked a bit on outside. Scratch at lower right. Max. dim. 0.064. Lower part of draped forearm and hand of figure, perhaps a child, either frontal or standing ... Probably late 5th century B.C ... This was a low platform on which a sacrificial hearth or an altar stood.

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[Agora Object] P 387: Black Figure Tripod Pyxis Fragments

a) Fragment appears to come from some sort of stand, possibly tripodal; it broadens above to a concave insloping surface, smoothed and having a broken edge projecting inward. It is broken left and below, ... 11-18 March 1932 ... Basket from 0.25m. below top of wall to level of hearth: late Roman sherds).