Susan I. Rotroff. The Athenian Agora XXXIII: Hellenistic Pottery, the Plain Wares. pp. 480, with 98 ills and 90 plates. 2006. Princeton NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 978-0-87661-233-0, hardback $150.

Rotroff’s Hellenistic Pottery, the Plain Wares is one of the key Hellenistic Pottery publications available to specialists in the field. The publication, by now more than a decade old, is still a shining example of the ideal pottery publication. It combines a rigorous, exhaustive and authoritative presentation and discussion of ceramic data with substantial contextual analysis. The lavishly illustrated volume joins its sister volumes, Agora XXIX and XXII, in providing a complete picture of the Hellenistic period pottery attested at the Athenian Agora.