[Agora Deposit] E 14:5: Unfinished Well, Well G

Found in 13/06/1935. Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F 19:5: Unfinished Well Shaft

A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] G 6:3: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft

A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] G 11:3: Well

Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building. Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.

[Agora Object] L 2447: Lamp with Graffito

Nozzle and chip from rim missing. Black glaze inside and on rim. Outside, thin brown glaze wash. Incised beneath. Type II of Corinth collection, type 16B of Agora collection. ADDENDA Nozzle added since ... 27 May 1936

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[Agora Object] L 1096: Lamp

Mended from many pieces. Nozzle and part of side missing. As far as can be seen, the lamp is circular, with a flat bottom wth rounded edges, convex sides, rim wide and plain, with projecting ledge and ... 14 March 1932

[Agora Object] L 1185: Lamp

Mended from four pieces; the back half of the wall and rim missing, and a piece from the front near the nozzle. None of the inner edge of the rim preserved. No base; the bottom rises to a rather large ... August-September 1932

[Agora Object] L 1201: Lamp

Mended from sevearl pieces; bits missing from the bottom. No base; the bottom rises in the middle. No handle. Black glaze on the rim, the nozzle, and the inside of the body; orange wash on the bottom and ... August-September 1932

[Agora Object] L 3369: Lamp

No handle. Bottom slightly concave. Black glaze on broad nearly flat rim, on inside and on nozzle. Outside reserved with thin glaze wash. Type II of Corinth collection, type 16B of Agora collection ... Ca. 525-480 B.C.

[Agora Object] L 3573: Lamp Fragment with Graffito

Piece of rim. Covered with good black glaze; thin wash on sides. Graffito scratched through glaze on top of rim. Clay burned gray. Type II of Corinth collection, type 16B of Agora collection. Beside modern ... 15 June 1938

[Agora Object] L 3666: Lamp Fragment

About half preserved, with start of nozzle. Flat bottom, low bulging wall, broad nearly flat rim, widely projecting. Black glaze on rim and inside; thinned glaze on outside. Type II of Corinth collection, ... March 1939

[Agora Object] L 3722: Lamp

Complete except for chips from rim. Broad rim, flat and slightly sloping to center; bottom raised at center; rather long spoon-shaped nozzle. Rim, nozzle and interior glazed black; dilute glaze on outside ... 4 May 1939

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[Agora Object] P 7901: Red Figure Cup Fragments: Type C and Inscribed

Most of rim and one handle preserved; little of floor. Offset rim. Of the medallion, framed by a single reserved line, remains only, at left, a heel, right, and the end of a staff(?); at right, an aryballos, ... 28 May 1936

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[Agora Publication] 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