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[Agora Deposit] T 20:4: Shallow Pit in Bedrock in ΕΛ

Shallow pit in bedrock on the upper terrace, ca. 3m. southeast of the Rocky Outcrop. Uncatalogued material: 46 sherds, 61 terracotta figurines and 4 objects. Early ware : Neolithic; Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; ... Archaic with intrusions ... Agora

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[Agora Object] P 27646: Pyxis with Five Huts on Lid

Mended, virtually complete. Numerous joining fragments. Chest with cut-out legs; lid has five model "granaries" side by side. Lugs on body, corresponding to ears on top. Intricate decoration in panels; ... 15 June 1967 ... Leica, 85-219, 85-220, 85-221, 85-224, 85-229, 85-306, 85-307, 85-308, 85-309, 85-475,

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[Agora Object] P 3647: Oinochoe with Lid

Flat bottom; rising handle from rim to point of greatest circumference; a strut from its middle to the neck. Solid black glaze only around the bottom; the rest of the vase decorated with narrow black bands ... 25 April 1934 ... P 3647 ... P 3647

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[Agora Deposit] A 18:1: Cistern Between Areopagus and Hill of the Nymphs

Cistern in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Simple, flask-shaped chamber withdraw-shaft; no tunnels. Mouth cut away in Byzantine times. Lower filling, 3rd c. B.C. Coins: 25 ... 25-30 April 1947 ... no tunnels. Mouth cut away

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[Agora Object] B 241: Statuette : Genius

The left foot is missing; the right arm is somewhat swollen and split from corrosion; otherwise complete. No base. The figurine represents a youth striding forward, the right leg advanced. The features ... 23 May 1935 ... Study Collections-Case No. 88-10 ... Agora

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[Agora Object] P 21591: Kylix

Mended from many pieces; preserved about half of upper part including handle and foot. Slightly out-turned rim, handle nearly round in section; spreading foot, hollow in center below. A hole below rim ... LH III A-B ... Stoa Gallery-Case No. 78.1, bottom shelf ... Agora

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1424

Bowl fragment. Max. dim. 0.035. LIMC IV, 1988, p. 232, no. 337, s.v. Gigantes. A, Hephaistos(?): in the Gigantomachy(?). The fragment preserves the face of a man with a very long beard, to right, with ... Ca. 490-480 B.C ... Agora XXX, no. 1424

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[Agora Object] I 6354: Record Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Broken at top, back, left side and bottom. Right face dressed with chisel. "POLETAI" record. Parts of twenty lines of the inscription preserved; roughly stoichedon. Margin to the right ... Second half of 4th. century B.C ... P.H. 0.172; Lett. H. 0.003-0.005; P.W. 0.104; P.Th. 0.065; W. (of margin) 0.015

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[Agora Object] P 326: Pyxis

Mended from many fragments; some still missing, including one lug. Flaring ring base; squat incurving body with greatest diameter a little above center; further incurving rim with slightly concave outline; ... 8 March 1932 ... P 326 ... P 326

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[Agora Object] L 533: Two Nozzle Lamp

Lamp with two opposite nozzles and solid projection in center of infundibulum. Rounded body, sloping in towards top. On rim, narrow band round large filling hole; set off from body by deep unglazed groove ... 18 April 1932 ... hole, diameter ca. 0.003 ... collection, type 26A of Agora

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[Agora Object] S 212: Head of Youth

Nearly life-size. The surface of the head above the right ear shows a flat pick-marked area about 0.09m. x 0.012m. The right side of the face is eroded, and the bridge of the nose worn down from the right ... 18 April 1932 ... Agora

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[Agora Object] I 2965: Marble Fragments

Inscribed fragments. Prytany decree. Fragment Β 1522, the lower half of the stele remains, including the tenon. The left side has been broken away up to the edge of the tenon and the face chipped along ... Late 3rd. or early 2nd. centuries B.C ... 1522) 0.003-0.008, (ΒΔ 210) ... (of tenon) ca. 0.06; P.H. 0.133; P.W. 0.112; P.Th. 0.045

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[Agora Object] P 3645: Two-Handled Cup

Bowl with low ring base, convex side wall and outward flaring lip. Two horizontal loop handles. The lower body, to the points of attachment of the handles, is painted black; at the level of the points ... 25 April 1934 ... Leica, 4-219, 4-224, 82-97, color slide

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 521

Four non-joining fragments: a of rim and wall with start of handle; b of lower wall and foot; c handle; d rim. P.H. of b) 0.092; diam. at rim 0.142; diam. of foot 0.14; max. dim. a) 0.224, c) 0.067, d) ... Second quarter of the 4th century B.C ... rim. P.H. of b) 0.092; diam ... 0.224, c) 0.067, d) 0.079.

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[Agora Object] I 5419: Record Fragment

Inscribed fragment of naval record. Broken on all edges. The back has been carefully re-worked in such away as to suggest that the stone was reused as a gutter. Parts of two columns remain. Forty-two lines ... 326/5 B.C ... Agora

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[Agora Object] P 18008: Panathenaic Amphora Fragments

Eleven non-joining fragments, some mended from several, preserving parts of obverse and reverse and a piece of the rim. Heavy incision; very poor glaze, black to red and much peeled, in many places leaving ... 25 June 1947 ... P 18008 ... P 18008

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[Agora Object] P 10369: White Ground Lekythos

Small fragments of shoulder, walls and foot missing; mouth and neck black; black below scene worn. In the neck, an inset, which alone could be filled from the mouth: H. 0.057 from neck down; Diam. 0.031; ... Publ. ca. 440 B.C ... Study Collections-Case No. 125-2/3 ... Agora

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[Agora Object] I 1750: Mining Inscription Fragments

Fragments of an opisthographic stele. "POLETAI" record. Archonship of Aristodemos and Thoudemos. Fragment Β 494 (a), part of one side, the right side of face A, is preserved, tooth chisseled; otherwise ... 353/2 B.C., and 352/1 B.C ... P.H. a) 0.173; H. (face ... 0.003-0.004, (face B) 0.003-0.004, b) 0.004, h) 0.003, i) ... 0.003

[Agora Deposit] T 19:3: Well

Well at 15/ΙΕ = Pocket in side of Turkish Pit at 15/ΙΔ. Shallow well on the lower slopes of the Acropolis, east of the Panathenaic Way, in the area later occupied by the Archaic Building. Located 3.5m ... 700-675 B.C. with intrusions ... No evidence for a period of use; a single dumped filling including a number of

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[Agora Object] B 240: Statuette : Herakles Resting

The figure stands facing, but with the bearded head turned and inclined slightly to his left. The weight is supported partly by the right leg, and partly by a tall tree-trunk, over which is draped the ... 23 May 1935 ... Study Collections-Case No. 88-7 ... Agora

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[Agora Object] P 1448: Krater Fragment with Relief Decoration

The fragment includes parts of the upper walls, the flaring rim, and one twisted horizontal handle. The lip is bent over and grooved outside. A large bowl, with moulded decoration of Erotes with garlands ... 2 March 1933 ... Agora XXIX, no. 604, fig. 44, pl. 58 ... Agora:Object:P 1495

[Corinth Object] C 1936 434: ATTIC RED-FIGURE CLOSED SHAPE

Fragment curves in at top and is unglazed inside. Perhaps body sherd of squat lekythos or oinochoe. Head of woman in profile right. Hair bound in white cord and adorned with three laurel petals, wearing ... ca. 430-420 BCE ... H 0.033, W 0.030, TH 0.003

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[Agora Object] I 6954: Block: List of Names

Inscribed block. Two corners broken away and minor abrasions. The four sides are smooth finished, with drafting below. Cut in 0.003m. for bottom 0.03m. Top (and presumably bottom) surface is rough picked ... August 1959 ... Agora XV, no. 494, p. 345 ... Hesperia 63 (1994), p. 180 ... Traill (1986), p. 2.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 107

Three non-joining wall fragments, a with turn of shoulder and start of handle. Max. dim. a) 0.128, b) 0.097, c) 0.046. Wedding procession. Fragment a (illustrated) preserves the heads of two trace horses ... Ca. 410-400 B.C ... Agora

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 12.2, s. 89, p. 462

Olynthus: Robinson, D.M., and others, Excavations at Olynthus, Baltimore, XII, Public and Domestic Architecture, pls. 186-187, 191, 218-219, pl. 191, 2, pl. 219, 2. Otchët Imperatorskot Arkheologicheskoǐ ... Agora 12 462 ... Otchët Imperatorskot Arkheologicheskoǐ Komissii, St. Petersburg, 1898 (1901), p. 18, ... 220, 772, pl. 224, 779 and ... Otchët Imperatorskot Arkheologicheskoǐ Komissii, St. Petersburg, 1903 (1906), p. 32,

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Solon the Lawgiver

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Solon the Lawgiver By the early 6th century B.C. social tensions in Athens had become acute, pitting the poorer citizens against rich and powerful landowners. Many citizens were reduced to the status of ... Athens, Agora Museum P 27646 ... m. Athens, Agora Museum P ... contrived that they suffered no

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[Agora Object] I 2012: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Catalogue of ships. Fragment ΟΕ 199a (a), mended from two pieces. Inscribed faces only preserved. Fragment ΑΑ 29 (c), a non-joining fragment, mended from two pieces, whoch preserves ... Ca. 357/6 B.C ... to a copy of IG II2, no.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 12.2, s. 80, p. 453

Führer durch die Antikenabteilung, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, 1968 (bearb. von U. Gehrig, A. Greifenhagen, N. Kunisch). Ginouvès, R., Balaneutikè: Recherches sur le bain dans l' antiquité grecque, Paris, ... Agora 12 453 ... Agora 12

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 7, s. 221, p. 205

Agora 7 205 L 2794 L 1431 L 1255 L 435 L 5185 L 975 L 1583 L 1758 L 3964 L 3234 L 4242 L 1718 L 4809 L 1224 L 4065 L 4541 L 2684 L 1254 L 757 L 1837 L 3588 L 801 L 5189 L 2688 L 5282 L 288 L 2473 L 2750 ... Agora 7, s. 221, p. 205 ... Agora 7, no. 791 ... Agora 7, no. 874

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 7, s. 226, p. 210

Agora 7 210 L 1725 L 4269 L 1022 L 1302 L 329 L 2667 L 4295 L 1693 L 1497 L 227 L 2691 L 2749 L 1763 L 3688 L 3439 L 2040 L 2294 L 2747 L 3426 L 206 L 1024 L 2133 L 2585 L 4688 L 2339 L 709 L 3235 L 935 ... Agora 7 ... L 224

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Monographs

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Monographs Excavations in the civic and cultural center of classical Athens began in 1931 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Athenian Agora volumes presenting ... Agora

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[Agora Object] P 2574: Red Figure Cup Fragments: Type B

Mended from many pieces, about one-eighth of the rim preserved and three-quarters of the base. Both handles missing. The top of the medallion gone and pieces from the center. The outside lacks nearly all ... August-September 1932 ... P 2574 ... P 2574

[Corinth Basket] NB230 B3 P15

Basket/zembil 230 3 15 NB230 B003 P015 April 18 (p. 15-16, 17-18) I resumed excavating in area Π-ΠΑ/96-100, continuing with Basket #2 of April 17. A Turkish pipe bowl was found in this fill, as well as ... Nails, Classical sherds ... Agora southwest

[Corinth Object] MF 8802: MOLD-BLOWN RIBBED GLASS CUP

Ribbed glass cup with straight, square rim, wheel cut and rough. Upper part of cylindrical sides have slight convexity. 8802d: Body more sharply convex. Could be from lower part of vessel as curves toward ... 3rd quarter 1st century AC. Cf. MF 1338 (Corinth XII #609). For date, see Agora XXXIV pg 44-45 (#83) ... Agora XXXIV pg 44-45 (#83)

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[Agora Object] I 4720: Marble Fragments: List of Names

Inscribed fragments. List of names by tribes and demes. Fragments ΘΘ 104 and ΘΘ 124 (a) four joining fragments. Inscribed face only preserved; parts of two columns. Fragments ΘΘ 121a, ΘΘ 121b, ΘΘ 124b, ... 4th. century B.C ... 0.004-0.005, k) 0.003-0.005, l)