Agora Object: ST 464
Inventory Number:   ST 464
Section Number:   ΟΟ 1317
Title:   Polisher
Category:   ST Stone
Description:   Broken at both ends; slightly tapering.
Irregularly five-sided; part of a polisher similar to ST 456, made of sandstone.
Worn from use and one of the broken ends also worn smooth.
ADDENDA Identified as "TΡΟΧΟΣ" 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. Above the original floor, S.W. corner of the Poros Building. As ST 456 (OO 1098).
Notebook Page:   2231
Negatives:   Leica, XLVI-53
Dimensions:   P.L. 0.077; P.W. 0.04
Material:   Stone
Date:   1 April 1949
Section:   ΟΟ
Grid:   D 17
Bibliography:   Tsakirgis (2015), n. 27.
    Hesperia 20 (1951), pl. 84 c.
    Agora XIV, p. 187, pl. 95 c.
Published Type:   Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 270.
References:   Publication: Agora XIV
Publication: Hesperia 20 (1951)
Publication: Tsakirgis (2015)
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 20, p. xix
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 261, p. 236
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 377
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Card: ST 464