"Id","Redirect","Chronology","Type","dc-date","dc-subject","Name","dc-publisher","dc-description","UserLevel","Collection","dc-creator","dc-title","Icon" "Agora:Publication:Agora 21","","","Publication","1976","","Agora XXI","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","Over 3,000 informal inscriptions scratched or painted on pottery, lamps, or other clay fragments have been found in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In this volume, 859 of these graffiti and dipinti (representing those with sufficient content to be meaningful) are presented in catalogue and drawings. The texts consist of messages and lists, love names and curses, rough calculations, dedications, commercial and tax notations—in short, all manner of fascinating, all-too-human trivia. An introduction to each category defines the type, indicates special characteristics and suggests parallels, purpose, etc. Each example is illustrated in a line drawing with the exception of the tax notations (dipinti); in this case photographs seemed preferable owing to the fugitive medium and the run-on cursive forms. This skillful presentation of an important body of material contributes significantly to the study of informal Greek, especially in regard to letter forms and spelling, as well as to an understanding of the varying commercial practices in ancient Athens.","","Agora","Lang, M.","Graffiti and Dipinti","Agora:Image:2009.09.0051::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0051.jpg::296::400" "Agora:Object:Agora XII:21","","500-480 B.C.","Object","","Black and Plain Pottery | Pelike | Lidless Pelike","Agora XII, no. 21","","Spreading ring foot with torus outer face and fillet at junction of foot and wall. Flaring rim; strap handles. Reserved: torus edge of the foot, the top of the mouth. Added red: two lines at level of lower attachment of handles, one at base of neck and two on lower part of body.","","Agora","","","" "Agora:Object:Agora XXX:21","","Ca. 430 B.C.","Object","","Red Figured And White Ground | Panathenaic Amphorae | Pictures Not Framed","Agora XXX, no. 21","","Neck, both handles, and shoulder with start of body. Ring on neck at level of handles. P.H. to top of handles 0.225.; ; All that remains of the figured decoration is the top of the wreathed head of a man or youth standing to left on the far right of one side. Above the figures at the junction with the neck, tongue pattern. Below each handle, inverted palmette with spiral tendrils. On neck, laurel or olive wreath (part of one leaf) to left.","","Agora","","","" "Agora:Object:Agora XXIX:21","","Ca. 275 or slightly later","Object","","Hellenistic Pottery and Wheelmade Table Ware | Drinking Cups | Classical Kantharos And Related Shapes | Classical Kantharos | Plain Rim | Black Glazed","Agora XXIX, no. 21","","One handle and part of body restored.; ; Scraped groove in resting surface; irregularly conical underside.; ; High, cylindrical stem. Tapering upper body. Rising, flaring spur.; ; Lustrous black glaze with stacking line, red on lower interior.; ; Similar: P 4702 and P 4703 (G 12:6), P 6284 (E 14:1, lower fill).","","Agora","","","" "Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-21-21","","","PublicationPage","","","Agora 21, s. 21, p. 11","","Agora 21","","Agora","","","Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-21-21::/Agora/Publications/Agora/Agora 021/Agora 021 021 (11).png::1449::2048" "Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-21-127","","","PublicationPage","","","Agora 21, s. 127","","Agora 21","","Agora","","","Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-21-127::/Agora/Publications/Agora/Agora 021/Agora 021 127.png::1449::2048" "Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-21-128","","","PublicationPage","","","Agora 21, s. 128","","Agora 21","","Agora","","","Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-21-128::/Agora/Publications/Agora/Agora 021/Agora 021 128.png::1434::2048" "Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-21-129","","","PublicationPage","","","Agora 21, s. 129","","Agora 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