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[Agora Object] L 3006: Mask: Handle of Lamp

Broken away behind. Open mouth, snub nose, pierced eyes, hair parted in middle and piled high. Flaky brown glaze. Clay pink at core, yellow on surface. At attachment from the shield of a lamp, or part ... 29 April 1937

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[Agora Object] L 3007: Plastic Lamp Fragment

Broken away below chest and behind. Pan, holding his pipes with both hands to his chin. Eyes pierced. Thin red paint. Buff clay. Cf. L 710. From demolition of Roman house to east of Tholos, filling below ... 7 May 1937

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[Agora Object] L 3017: Plastic Lamp: Isis

Figure of a woman, swaddled tightly, like a mummy, with her arms straight down her sides inside the swaddling bands. The feet, each with six toes, stick out below; and the nozzle below the feet. Air hole ... 8 May 1937

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[Agora Object] L 3101: Plastic Lamp

Part of infundibulum broken away. A wild boar couchant, rests on a high base. A pierced suspension lug rises from his shoulders; in his back is the filling hole. Pale yellow clay covered with dull red ... 200-250 A.D.

[Agora Object] L 3103: Plastic Lamp Fragment

Two nozzles, and the left hand of a supporting figure remain. The lamp has been damaged by fire. A shell-shaped infundibulum with originally probably three nozzles, an Amazon 's shield on top at the preserved ... Late 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D.

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[Agora Object] L 3104: Figurine Lamp: Telesphoros

Youth in long hooded cloak, on a high hollow stand. Ithyphallic nozzle. Filling hole beside neck to left; vertical handle behind. Unglazed. Red clay. Ανθρωπόμορφος λύχνος, με μορφή Τελεσφόρου. Σχεδόν ... 9 June 1937

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[Agora Object] L 3277: Plastic Lamp Fragment: Male Torso

Head, arms, legs and phallos missing. Arms raised, right leg advanced. Large round vent hole between shoulders at back. The phallos was probably a lamp. Orange to buff at surfaces; no paint. Fine micaceous ... 24 February 1938

[Agora Object] L 3457: Plastic Lamp

Nozzle broken away. A crouching negro boy wearing a hooded cloak, the cloak thrown over his shoulder. High oval base; filling hole behind head; hood pierced to serve as handle. Red glaze, rather flaked ... 23 May 1938