the excavation of the athenian agora twelfth season: 1947

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160 HOMER A. THOMPSON inscribed in bold characters, ecasv&og etlit: "I belong to Thamneus " (P1. 41, 3, b). I he pit yielded another written docuiment of interest, the base of a skyphos on the under side of which is incised an enigm
EXCAVATION OF ATIHENIAN AGORA, 1947 161 camps, fishes, and birds provide the setting, the whole being apparently a fantastic contamination of the story of Scylla and Charybdis with that of the Sirens. The principal types of lamps from the cistern are illustrated by the three speci- nens shown in P1. 43, 1, one of which bears the name of Komos in the genitive, perhaps the name of a near-by resident since it appears in the abbreviated form Kco on another fragment (P 18756). Among the scores of plain vases and jars are a pair of lagynoi, SS 10,259; SS 10,260. Made of slightly micaceous buff clay, they bear the stamp MOMXMQNON Pl. -2, 2a (Drawi11 by 4 aran eler Fig. 5. Megarian Bowl from Cistern on Areopagus (P 18,640) Scale 1: 2 (Drawing by Marian Welker) on the handle. The capaci'ty of the better-preserved jar, measured to a marked line just below the lip, is 4.08 litres. In addition to these " fractional"Y wine containers, the cistern yielded three stamped Thasian handles, two Parian and twenty-fouir Rhodian, all from wine amphorae of standard size. Characteristic of the terracottas from the cistern are the two pieces shown in P1. 42, 2, an actor and a draped female figure. A welcome piece of evidence for the dating of this cistern group is given by eight silver coins of Histiaea of the period ca. 197-146 B.C. (below, p. 192). For habitation on the north slopes of the Areopagus in the Roman period the
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