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Missing pieces restored in plaster.
Rounded bottom; slightly flaring rim with thickened lip; one horizontal and one vertical handle.
Gritty red-brown to gray clay, blackened from use.
Cf. Agora XXXIII, ... February-April 1937 |
| Flat disk with hole surrounded by a groove in center.
Just inside of preserved edge, a short ridge with two holes beside it. Grooves continue line of ridge.
Fragment b) is a non-joining rim piece with ... February-April 1937 |
| One piece and a chip from lug missing. Restored in plaster. Heavy disk with two shallow grooves on top surface near edge; hole pierced through center; near edge a pair of holes and a ridge; a niche in ... 12 February 1937 |
Small fragment from a large lid, preserving a little of the rim, with a semi-circular lifting hole cut out of the edge, and a long narrow vertical lug or grip set just inside it. Two holes pierced through ... 13 June 1939 |
Nearly half of a round disk preserved.
Bottom plain. Top moulded in relief: petalled flower around a central hole, and ivy leaf pattern outside. Lifting lug with two holes beside it near rim.
Coarse pinkish ... 17 July 1946 |
| 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 |
Roman use fill in lowest 6.70m; Byz upper fill (dump). Notebook lists eight fills; subdivisions based on shelf groupings.
Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped fills 1-2, Byzantine
.2=Fill 3 (baskets 18-37)
.3=Fill ... 50-150 A.D. to Early Byz. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
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