"dc-description","dc-date","dc-creator","Name","Chronology","Icon","dc-subject","dc-publisher","Type","Collection","Redirect","UserLevel","dc-title","Id"
"Altar, Religious","","","Altar of Ares","5th B.C.; 1st A.D.","Agora:Image:2008.03.0085::/Agora/2008/2008.03/2008.03.0085.tif::3868::3827","Site | By Area | Central | Temple of Ares","","Monument","Agora","","","","Agora:Monument:Altar of Ares"
"Altar, Religious","","","Altar of Zeus Agoraios","4th B.C.","Agora:Image:1997.09.0127::/Agora/1997/1997.09/1997.09.0127.tif::1347::968","Site | By Area | Central | Altar of Zeus Agoraios","","Monument","Agora","","","","Agora:Monument:Altar of Zeus Agoraios"
"Religious","","","Altar of the Twelve Gods","550-500 B.C.","Agora:Image:2004.02.0106::/Agora/2004/2004.02/2004.02.0106.tif::2722::1785","Site | By Area | Central | Sanctuary of the Twelve Gods","","Monument","Agora","","","","Agora:Monument:Altar of the Twelve Gods"
"Religious, Altar","","","Altar and Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania","Late 6th B.C.","Agora:Image:1997.01.0270::/Agora/1997/1997.01/1997.01.0270.tif::7447::5565","Site | By Area | North | Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania","","Monument","Agora","","","","Agora:Monument:Altar and Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania"
"The Altar of Zeus The Agora Excavations began with the aim of revealing the monuments and history of the ancient Agora. Of course, every artifact or feature that was exposed held importance, but when something extraordinary was brought to light, its discovery generated great excitement. View of the orthostate block (A 404) of the Altar of Zeus Agoraios Nb. Ε III, pp. 503–504; July 23, 1931. On July 23, 1931, the excavator filled five pages of his notebook describing a significant discovery of the first excavation season: ""A large structure once covered a large part of [the] area, it was almost certainly an Altar."" A few pages later he added another entry describing an ""Altar Block: the large block of white marble with moulding above and below; shown on photos p. 507"" (Nb. Ε III, pp. 503–507). The altar was later identified as the Altar of Zeus Agoraios, an important ancient monument believed to have been erected first on the Pnyx in the 4th century B.C. and later dismantled and re-erected at the turn of the millenium in its present location. View looking northeast across Section E at the end of the 1931 season. Visible in the foreground is a column base and foundation blocks of the Metroon; to the left the statue of Emperor Hadrian was found lying in the Great Drain. In the center background are the steps of the Altar of Zeus Agoraios and its large altar block. Visible in the middle foreground are the foundations for the monument of the Eponymous Heroes. The Church of Panagia Vlassarou is visible in the upper right corner. The Statue of Hadrian Inevitably something is found at the end of the excavation season that must be left for the next season to fully explore. Just a few days after the discovery of the Altar of Zeus Agoraios, exploration of the Great Drain was progressing on the west side of Section Ε when the excavator noted another surprising find: “Digging away earth between cover slab and this block was found Statue of Roman Emperor, preserved from just below kilt to about shoulders, lying at a slant, lower part resting on low end of the fallen cover slab and body slanting down and outward to E.” The statue of Hadrian lying face down in the Great Drain, February 5, 1932 The difficulty of making a fuller description and taking photographs is apparent in a later comment, “Earth roof must be supported and large block broken and removed before statue can be taken out” (Nb. Ε III, p. 518). The statue would remain lying in the ground until it could be properly excavated and removed at the beginning of the following season. Lifting the statue to an upright position Cleaning and preparing to photograph the statue The first formal photographic portrait of the statue of Hadrian","","","Overview: The Altar of Zeus and Statue of Hadrian","","","","","Webpage","Agora","http://agathe.gr/overview/the_altar_of_zeus_and_statue_of_hadrian.html","","","Agora:Webpage:553cda208d00e614a638edbc5cf4508c"
"Altar of the Twelve Gods Near the middle of the open square, somewhat to the north, lay the Altar of the Twelve Gods (Fig. 7), today largely hidden under the Athens–Piraeus railway (1891). A corner of the enclosure wall survives, along with the inscribed marble base for a bronze statue that reads ""Leagros, the son of Glaukon, dedicated this to the twelve gods."" Thucydides tells us the younger Peisistratos, grandson of the tyrant, established the altar in the Agora during his archonship (522/1 B.C.). The upper surface of the present sill (4th century B.C.) preserves traces of the stone fence that would have defined the sacred area around the altar, now missing. Figure 7. Altar of the Twelve Gods, originally dated 522/1 B.C., with later rebuildings. One corner of the sill only is visible, just south of the modern Athens–Piraeus railway. The altar was one of the few monuments permitted within the open square and it served as the zero milestone or center of the city. Herodotos (2.7), when giving a distance in Egypt, tells us that it is as far from Heliopolis to the sea as it is from the Altar of the Twelve Gods in Athens to Olympia. On a milestone dating to ca. 400 B.C. we read: ""The city set me up, a truthful monument to show all mortals the measure of their journeying: the distance to the altar of the twelve gods from the harbor is forty-five stades"" (IG II2 2640). Physically, we are at the heart of the city. ""Amongst those of the Peisistratids who held the annual magistracy at Athens was Peisistratos, son of Hippias the tyrant (named after his grandfather), who during his archonship set up the Altar of the Twelve Gods in the Agora and the Altar of Apollo in the shrine of Apollo Pythios. On the altar in the Agora the Athenians later rendered the inscription invisible by adding to the length of the structure."" (Thucydides 6.54.6–7)","","","AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Altar of the Twelve Gods","","","","","Webpage","Agora","http://agathe.gr/guide/altar_of_the_twelve_gods.html","","","Agora:Webpage:ce0677c179f85e42713c9ab56a5f2b56"
"Temple, Sanctuary, Altar","","","Sanctuary of the People and Graces","Hellenistic","Agora:Image:1997.04.0218::/Agora/1997/1997.04/1997.04.0218.tif::1662::2105","Site | By Area | West | Kolonos Agoraios | Area around the Temple of Hephaistos","","Monument","Agora","","","","Agora:Monument:Sanctuary of the People and Graces"
"American Journal of Archaeology","October","Swindler, Mary Hamilton","Swindler, American Journal of Archaeolog36:4... 1932","","","","","Publication","Corinth","","","A Terracotta Altar in Corinth","Corinth:Publication:Swindler, American Journal of Archaeolog36:4... 1932"