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Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs.
This group of ostraka may well come from a single ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. |
| From a coarse unglazed pot.
Incised inside, lengthwise to the pot:
Dull purplish-red clay with buff surface. Green sand fill in bottom of drain. 1776 Leica ... 9-10 June 1939 |
From a coarse unglazed pot; mended from three pieces.
Incised outside:
Red (Attic) clay. Green sand fill in bottom of drain. 1776 Leica ... 9-10 June 1939 |
From a semi-glazed krater; mended from two pieces, small fragment missing. Reddish-brown glaze band and thin wash outside; red to black glaze inside, much pitted.
Incised inside (pitted when writing ... 9-10 June 1939 |
From a coarse unglazed pot; mended from two pieces.
Incised outside, more or less diagonally to the pot:
Red clay with grayish core. Green sand fill in bottom of drain. 1776 Leica ... 9-10 June 1939 |
From the shoulder of a coarse unglazed pot; mended from two pieces.
Incised outside, upside-down to the pot:
Red clay. Green sand fill in bottom of drain. 1776 Leica ... 9-10 June 1939 |
| Rim of krater with black glaze inside only; rim broad, flat, projecting.
Incised on upper face of rim: Green sand at bottom of drain. 2352 Leica PD 1111-c ... 12 June 1939 |
From the wall of a semi-glazed krater; much-cracked red glaze inside.
Incised outside: Green sand at bottom of drain. 2352 Leica, XX-1 ... 12 June 1939 |
From a coarse amphora of micaceous brown clay. Traces of two glazed bands outside.
Incised outside: Green sand at bottom of drain. 2352 Leica ... 12 June 1939 |
Heavy fragment of coarse red clay, unglazed; probably from a rain tile of Laconian type.
Incised on smoother concave side: Green sand at bottom of drain. 2352 Leica ... 12 June 1939 |
| From the shoulder of a pithos; ornamented with raised ridges.
Deeply incised outside, between two ridges:
Micaceous brown-gray clay with grits. Όστρακο οστρακοφορίας Ιπποκράτους Αλκμεωνίδου. Πρόερχεται ... 12 June 1939 |
| From a semi-glazed krater; black glaze inside, band outside. Mended from three pieces.
Incised inside: Green sand at bottom of drain. 2352 Leica, XVIII-83 ... 12 June 1939 |
| Wall fragment from a black figured amphora; back of Panathenaic with the knee of a running figure with shield(?). White arm and hand preserved of shield device.
Incised inside rim of shield, beginning ... 12 June 1939 |
| Lang, L ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The scraps of pottery on which were written the names of candidates for ostracism are one of the most intriguing pieces of evidence for ancient democracy found in the Athenian Agora. This book is a complete ... 1990 |
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