Agora Object: IL 350
Inventory Number:   IL 350
Section Number:   ΜΜ 53
Title:   Lead Token
Category:   Iron & Lead
Description:   Obverse: a team of long-necked animals (horses) to right draws a cart which carries a bell-shaped object with a standard rising from its top. On top of the standard, a triangle with flying fillets. In field to right, indeterminate object.
The ship 's standard or stylis, symbolizing the ship of Dionysos, and carried in the Heiros Gamos procession.
Above at the right, over the animals ' heads, a ledge-like projection, uncertain; an animal crouching on its top (?)
Reverse: flat, plain.
Cf. Deubner (1932), Attische Feste, pp. 105-106, pls. 11, 2 and 3, 12.
Context:   Below top of railway wall.
Late Roman.
Handling:   in zip lock bag in conservation
with gloves
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.017; Th. 0.003; Wt. 5.49
Material:   Lead
Date:   14 March 1936
Section:   ΜΜ
Grid:   ΜΜ:37/Β
Elevation:   -1.40m.
Masl:   -1.4m.
Bibliography:   Agora X, pp. 95-96, pl. 22, no. L 88.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Deubner (1932), pp. 105-106, pls. 11, 2 and 3, 12.
References:   Publication: Agora X
Image: 2017.12.0500
Notebook: Ζ-17
Notebook: ΜΜ-1
Notebook Page: Ζ-17-74 (pp. 3265-3266)
Notebook Page: ΜΜ-1-55 (pp. 100-101)
Notebook Page: ΜΜ-1-70 (pp. 130-131)
Card: IL 350
Card: IL 350