[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 ... references and a site plan are ... 978-0-87661-203-3Volume: 3 Here are presented ... features of the Agora that are

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Picture Books

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Picture Books The Athenian Agora Picture Book series, started in 1951, aims to make information about life in the ancient commercial and political center of Athens available to a wide audience. Each booklet ... records are found in the Agora ... are now recorded). In a ... Agora are thousands of

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[Agora Object] S 902: Statue of Child

A standing boy, the left forearm, and the legs below the knees, broken off. The right arm is carried across the chest and the hand rests on the left shoulder; the head, tilted to the left, lies on the ... 19 April 1937 ... A 14:1.3 ... -21.3--1.5m.

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[Agora Object] S 586: Herm Portrait: Inscribed

Completely preserved except for phallus. The top of the head is flat and rough-picked, and was probably originally finished with stucco. Realistic portrait of an elderly man, the lines and folds of flesh ... Period of Hadrian ... flesh of the face are ... The lips are thin, the pupil and iris of the eye are ... Cistern A, a late Roman deposit south of the

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[Agora Object] S 1539: Knee Fragment from Akroterion

Broken behind, just above and just below the knee, and to right. Draped right knee, slightly bent, from a life-size statue from akroterion of Temple of Ares. Good workmanship. Pentelic marble. Joins Nike ... 16 June 1951 ... Agora see: Hesperia 22 ... from a life-size statue from akroterion of Temple of Ares. Good ... Negatives LIII-48, LIII-49, LIII-50, LIII-51 are destroyed.

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[Agora Object] S 362: Portrait Head of Female Figure

In fine preservation. A portrait of a middle aged woman (Faustina the Younger ?) with rather severe features and with hair parted in the center and drawn down in waves to a chignon in the back, below which ... Ca. 162-166 A.D ... Agora

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[Agora Object] P 5495: Red Figure Oinochoe Fragments

From the shoulder of a small pot; oinochoe. Thin glaze inside along lower edge of fragment only. Outside, below border of egg pattern, head of youth, right. Partial contours, the hair brown. Many more ... 15 March 1935 ... Est. Diam. c) (foot) 0.12; P.H. a) ca. 0.105, b) ca. 0.084

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[Agora Object] S 853: Statuette of Mother of the Gods

The head, which was doweled in, is missing. Female figure wearing a chiton and himation seated in a high-backed throne, which has lions as front legs; the bodies of the lions are carved in relief against ... 19 March 1937 ... Well. Sculptor's dump, 3rd century A.D ... figure wearing a chiton and himation seated in a high-backed ... lions are carved in relief