By Kathleen M. Lynch
This booklet provides the 1st well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a past due Archaic condominium within the Athenian Agora. The deposit comprises loved ones and fine-ware pottery, approximately all of the figured items of that are types linked to communal ingesting. because it comes from a unmarried condo, the pottery additionally displays procuring styles and thematic personal tastes of the house owner. The multifaceted method followed during this ebook exhibits that which means and use are inherently similar, and that via archaeology you possibly can fix a context of use for a category of items usually studied in isolation.
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98; totally glazed one-handlers, Agora XII, p. 126. In addition, figured wares also show a later style. Black figure declines in quality and increases in hastiness, see discussion in Shear 1993, pp. 410–411. 46. Only one well in the later group was a functioning household well, Q 21:3, beneath the Roman period Omega house. Another functioning well filled with delayed debris is G 11:3, the later well of Building F, considered by some to be the predecessor of the Tholos. The function and role of this complex of structures is much debated, but for this study, Building F is considered outside the definition of an ordinary house, and therefore not a purely domestic context.
It is likely that these were objects broken in the destruction, as opposed to the objects in Level 5 that were not broken until tossed into the well. Even more abundant than the figured ware in Level 2 were large coarse-ware fragments. It is particularly desirable to understand the relationship of the two intentional red cups (87 and 88) to the chronology of the well. With the exception of the significantly earlier sherds, the fragments from Level 2 are contemporary with the pottery from Level 5.
Do Not Distribute. the archaeological context of well j 2:4 16. Agora V, p. 123; Agora XII, p. 44. 17. See Table 5 for minimum number of vessels, plus Chapter 3 for quantification methodology. The ring bases of cooking-ware hydriai, jugs, and kadoi are indistinguishable; see Rotroff and Oakley 1992, p. 29. No effort was made to mend the cooking-ware water jars, so there may be many other complete water vessels within Level 6 as well as Level 5, which also contains period of use material. 18. This will be important to remember when we consider the large number of kadoi rims preserved in Level 2 of the deposit.