A mortgage inscription naming a woman, the first two letters of her name (ΔΗ) are preserved at the end of the second-to-last line. 5th or 3rd century B.C.
Epinetron. Placed over the knee, an epinitron provided a firm surface for working wool. These two examples date in the last quarter of the 5th century B.C.
Agora Excavations staff, 1933. Third row (left to right): Charles Spector, Piet de Jong, Arthur Parsons, Eugene Vanderpool, Mary Zelia Pease [Philippides], James Oliver. Second row: Joan Bush [Vanderpool], Elizabeth Dow, Virginia Grace, Gladys Baker, Homer Thompson. Sitting: Lucy Talcott, Benjamin Meritt, Josephine Shear, T. Leslie Shear, Dorothy Burr [Thompson].
A mortgage inscription naming a woman, the first two letters of her name (ΔΗ) are preserved at the end of the second-to-last line. 5th or 3rd century B.C.
Dancing women on the lid of a container for cosmetics or jewelry, ca. 420-410 B.C. One woman wears a patterned jacket and carries a krotalon; the other wears a mantle with a patterned border.
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