[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: History of the Agora

http://agathe.gr/guide/history_of_the_agora.html

History of the Agora The excavations of the Athenian Agora have uncovered about thirty acres on the sloping ground northwest of the Acropolis (Fig. 3). Material of all periods from the Late Neolithic to ... speaks]: "'I have never feared ... deceive each other. If I keep ... middle of the 6th century, and

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[Agora Object] S 166: Portrait Statue of the Emperor Hadrian

Colossal statue, the legs broken off; the head, the left arm from the shoulder and the right arm from the elbow, all made separately, are missing. The figure wears kilt, corselet and cloak. The corselet ... 117-138 A.D ... Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 178-183, figs. 8-10, pl. 6 ... Agora I, no. 56, pp. 71-74, pls. 36-37.

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[Agora Object] H 163: Fragmentary Amphora or Olpe with Graffito

Eleven pieces comprising two non-joining fragments. To Young's publication of six pieces are now added five more, two of which help to complete to inscription. Part of the side wall with reserved panel ... 600 B.C ... A.J.A. 44 (1940), p. 6, no. 2.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: State Religion

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State Religion: The Archon Basileus There was no attempt in Classical Athens to separate church and state. Altars and shrines were intermingled with the public areas and buildings of the city. A single ... Basileos) in the late 6th century ... traveler Pausanias identified ... 1.3.1). Pausanias describes

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[Corinth Basket] NB977 B45 P111

Basket/zembil 977 45 111 Fill south of wall 291, W of 412,50 E - medium brown sandy silt with 5% pebbles and cobbles, plaster, tile We began to lower the fill on the other half of the arbitrary line 412,50 ... 5th c ... Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)

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[Agora Object] J 5: Gold Seal Ring

The man strides right; behind him are the two female figures in flounced skirts; the man holds a spear or branch; from his waist two lines extend to the first woman. Small symbols in the field to the left ... 10 May 1933 ... Agora XIII, p. 192, pl. 41, no. VIII 6 ... Agora XIV, p. 6, pl. 17 c.

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[Agora Object] T 2404: Inscribed Mold

Part of lower edge preserved, with one leg of a low table or couch. On a sort of a panel hanging from or just under the table and outlined in low relief in the mould, letters, also in low relief. Second ... 7 June 1951, 8 July 1967 ... 169-3/6 (mould)

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 12.2, s. 72, p. 445

Ἀρχαιολογική Ἐφημερίς, 1953-54, Part 1, pp. 205-206. Archeologia, Warsaw, XV, 1964, p. 192, fig. 25. Ashmolean Museum: Select Exhibition of Sir John and Lady Beazley's Gifts, 1912-1966, London, 1967 [Beazley ... Agora 12 445 ... 2, figs. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, ... Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον, Athens, I, 1915, Παράρτημα, p. 40, fig. 17, 1-4 ... Archivo storico per la Sicilia, Ser. III, vol. I, Palermo, 1947