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[Agora Publication] The Neolithic and Bronze Ages

Immerwahr, S. A ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The finds in the Athenian Agora from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages have added important chronological context to the earliest eras of Athenian history. The bulk of the items are pottery, but stone, bone, ... 1971

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[Agora Object] B 778: Sword

Broken in five pieces but complete. Heavy rib down center of blade. A raised rim around the edge of the handle to take the (wooden ?) hand-hold. One rivet for fastening on hand-hold in place, and traces ... 5, 14 May 1947

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[Agora Object] B 780: Bowl - Disintegrated

Badly bent and corroded but largely complete. Apparently an open bowl with rounded bottom and put-turned lip. One horizontal handle is preserved, attached below the lip. Apparently disintegrated while ... 9 May 1947

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[Agora Object] B 781: Sword

Badly corroded; the blade preserved in several pieces, but nothing of the hilt except two small pieces which appear to be the projecting ears. To one of these a gold-leaf rivet head cover of the smaller ... 14 May 1947

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[Agora Object] B 782: Cleaver

A broad curved tool, apparently more or less complete, including tongue for insertion into wooden handle. Χάλκινο ξυράφι. Finished Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. S.E. part of chamber (with other bronzes on table; ... 14 May 1947

[Agora Object] BI 742: Ivory Rosettes and Ornaments

Four rosettes and a leaf surrounding outside another rosette (?). Also four small fragments. Ivory inlays, probably from the table near which they were found. Neatly worked. Back plain. Mycenaean chamber ... 25 August 1947

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[Agora Object] J 99: Gold Ornament

A thin almost circular piece of gold leaf, the edges turned in underneath, as if it had once covered a button. Probably rivet from bronze sword (B 779). Πέντε χρυσές επενδύσεις κεφαλών ήλων σπάθης. Three ... 2 May 1947

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[Agora Object] J 100: Gold Ornaments

Set of leaf rosettes, consists of thirty-five largely rosettes, one fragmentary, one crumpled and one half preserved. Simple eight-petalled rosette pattern in very low relief. Each one pierced irregularly ... 6 May 1947