Agora Object: ST 456
Inventory Number:   ST 456
Section Number:   ΟΟ 1098
Title:   Polisher
Category:   ST Stone
Description:   A prismatic-shaped piece of abrasive stone, perhaps used to rub down or polish marble.
Sandstone.
ADDENDA Identified as "TPOXOΣ", and as being sandstone by A. Georgiades.
Cf. H.S.R. "Notes on Agora Stone-Worker's Grindstones"
Early Roman period (to be associated with the work of marble-workers from whose shops derive several unfinished marble implements).
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 270.
Context:   House F, Room 4, with Hymettian marble chips.
Notebook Page:   2231
Negatives:   Leica, XLVI-53
Dimensions:   L. 0.075; P.W. 0.042
Material:   Stone
Date:   1 April 1949
Section:   ΟΟ
Bibliography:   Tsakirgis (2015), n. 27.
    AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 14, fig. 10.
    Hesperia 20 (1951), pl. 84 c.
    Agora XIV, p. 187, pl. 95 c.
Published Type:   Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 270.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 20, p. xix
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 261, p. 236
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 377
Image: 2008.01.0047
Image: 2004.01.1151 (HAT 62-19)
Image: 2012.53.0057 (XLVI-53)
Notebooks (4)
Notebook Pages (5)
Card: ST 456