"dc-creator","Redirect","UserLevel","Chronology","Id","dc-title","dc-date","Collection","dc-publisher","Icon","Name","dc-description","Type","dc-subject"
"","","","late 2nd or 3rd century AD","Corinth:Object:S 696","UNDER LIFE-SIZE STATUE OF DRAPED MALE","1904/05/20","Corinth","","Corinth:Image:bw  2039::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/2000-2999/2039_gp.jpg::1351::1800","S 696","Standing male figure, over half life-size; weight on r. leg; l. leg bent slightly; square pillar support at l. side; r. arm bent across chest, l. at side, flexed. Wears tunic, visible at neck, and Greek himation wrapped around entire body, grapsed by r. h","Object","Sculpture | Stone Sculpture"
"","","","","Agora:Object:P 27188","Black Glaze Kernos","1964","Agora","","","P 27188","Two large non-joining sections preserved, each of many pieces. Parts of three bowls, of rim, of wall and upper part of base; also one handle. Restored in plaster except for the base. Reserved band at juncture of bowl and base; also a much thinner one above. ; ; Cf. Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 340, no. B 27.","Object",""
"","","","","Agora:Object:G 549","Faience Hawk","30 March 1957","Agora","","Agora:Image:2010.01.0404::/Agora/2010/2010.01/2010.01.0404.tif::2664::2068","G 549","Broken in twelve pieces.; Hawk standing on flat plinth. PIerced on back for suspension.; Cream colored body with slightly glossy surface, brownish and greenish in color.","Object",""
"","","","","Agora:Object:S 741","Mold for a Bronze Statue","11 March 1936","Agora","","Agora:Image:2012.03.2192::/Agora/2012/2012.03/2012.03.2192.tif::2776::3752","S 741","Put together from many pieces; most of the legs, much of the hips, part of the back, and a fragment of the chin and mouth, remain, together with many non-joining fragments.; A standing male figure, about two-thirds life-size, its leg thrust forward. Over the (waxed) core, gritty clay was applied in three or four layers to a total thickness of 0.03m. to 0.045m. The outermost layer was fired red (from a preliminary baking); the innermost black, from the molten metal, particles of which cling to its surface.; For attachment to its base, a spike was let down from each heel. Note in the middle of the back a round hole, possibly for one of the pins that held the inner and outer polos in position. ; S 797, B 1538, B 1541 (wrong number) are also parts of the same mould.; Cf. JdI 52 (1937), p. 37.","Object",""
"","","","Context of late 1st century B.C. and 1st century after Christ","Agora:Object:Agora XXIX:1775","","","Agora","","","Agora XXIX, no. 1775","Medicine Bottle.; ; Handle and half of neck and mouth missing.; ; Flat base with string marks. Irregular, barrel-shaped body with slightly angular shoulder. Short, thick neck; plain, slightly outturned rim. Originally a strap(?) handle from rim to belly. On lower body, stamped within lozenge: Νικι'ας λυ'κιος ἐπ"" γγυ'αι Fine, sandy, micaceous, reddish yellow fabric (7.5YR 7/6); dull red glaze on neck and inside mouth.; ; The shape of this and the two following bottles is paralleled by three bottles from Egypt stamped Διονυσι'(ου), Διονυσι'ου, and Διονυσι'ου λυ'κ[ιον⟧, respectively (Rowe 1942, no. 16, p. 59, pl. XVIII, and p. 62, said to be from a 3rd-century context; Perdrizet 1921, no. 352, p. 128, pl. CXXVI); a bottle in Beirut stamped Δημε'ας λυ'κιος (Calvet 1982); and a bottle from Mirmeki stamped ⟧αυ'γου λυ'κιον ἐπ"" ἐγγυ'ἡἰ (Prouglo 1966, pp. 192--202, figs. 1, 2). Although the epsilon is lacking in the Agora stamp, its last line may tentatively be read as suggested above on analogy with the latter. The inscription seems to confirm that the reason for the stamp was to guarantee the contents. The name Νικι'ας occurs also on medicine bottles of other shapes (IG XIV 2406:4b; Calvet 1982, p. 282; Ephesos IX, ii/ii, O 27, pp. 149, 152, pl. 214) and, according to Virginia Grace, on bottles in the Benaki collection and from the island of Rhodes (Benaki M 3; MS 555--557, 564) naming Νικι'ας τοῦ Θευδο'του. The variant Νεικι'α λυ'κιον is also recorded (IG XIV 2406:4a). Intriguing, but of uncertain relevance, is the fact that Νικι'ας is also the name of a doctor the poet Theokritos knew on Kos in the 3rd century (Idyll 11.2, 5; Idyll 28). Bottles of a somewhat similar shape but with a pointed bottom instead of a flat resting surface have been found at Priene, stamped with the names Isodoros, Proteos, and Charidem[, though without the word λυ'κιον (Priene, pp. 425--426, nos. 93--96, fig. 543); other pots name Krates, Thrasys, Aristeos, Straton, and Kosmos (Calvet 1982, p. 282) but omit the name of the drug. Other purveyors of λυ'κιον known from stamps on terracotta, lead, or copper bottles are Mousaios, Herakleios, Iason, Artemidoros, Klean(thes?), Akestias, Lykias, Simakon, and Alypou (the last perhaps the name of a pharmacist but also the name of a drug) (see IG XIV 2406:1, 2; H. A. Thompson 1948, p. 191; Guarducci 1952; Sjöqvist 1960, p. 82, fig. 15, pl. 20; Prouglo 1966, p. 13, fig. 2; Hershkovitz 1986, no. 1, pp. 47, 50; Smith 1992, p. 166, note 38; Panayotou and Chrysostomou 1993, no. 12, pp. 381--382, figs. 17, 18). For a good discussion of the medicine lykion, its uses, and the containers, see Sjöqvist 1960, pp. 78--83.","Object","Hellenistic Pottery and Wheelmade Table Ware | Imported Pottery | Miscellaneous Wheelmade Glazed And Partially Glazed Wares And Related Vessels"
"","","","","Agora:Object:IL 1153","Lead Token","27 February 1939","Agora","","Agora:Image:2017.12.0605::/Agora/2017/2017.12/2017.12.0605.jpg::1416::1304","IL 1153","A: a scroll with uncertain object beside it (another scroll ?).; B: plain.; ; Cf. BMC Attic IX 6 (?).","Object",""
"","","","Ca. 500-490 B.C.","Agora:Object:Agora XXX:234","","","Agora","","","Agora XXX, no. 234","Four non-joining fragments of rim and neck, P 25978 a preserving the spiral of one handle, P 28759 with start of shoulder. Two small fragments (P 25978 b and c) give a bit of the flange of a handle and part of the inside of the neck opposite the handle on P 25978 a. P.H. of P 25978 a to rim 0.107; to top of handle 0.17; est. diam. at rim 0.38; max. dim. b) 0.078, c) 0.087, P 28759: 0.145. H. A. Thompson, Hesperia 27, 1958, pl. 45:b (fragment a); Schleiffenbaum, Volutenkrater, p. 324, cat. no. V 205; LIMC VII, 1994, p. 937, no. 185, s.v. Theseus.; ; A, Theseus(?) and the Marathonian Bull. At the far left of P 25978 a, next to the handle zone, there is a Doric column, then in front of it a youth to right, wrapped in a cloak and holding a stick in his right hand, not quite sitting on a block stool. He looks at a youth, who is almost down on one knee to right, a cloak over his outstretched left arm and a spear in his lowered right hand. Then, separated by a tree, comes Theseus(?), who has a club made from a stout branch. Around the head of each figure is a wreath. The bull (hindquarters missing) is down on one knee to left. Above, on the right, another tree. On side of mouth, key pattern to left; on lower zone of neck, encircled palmettes in black glaze to right. Ivy on flanges of handles. P 28759 comes from Side B (the lines of glaze on the inside indicate this). It preserves a youth (head, left shoulder and arm, right knee and most of right foot missing), kneeling to left, torso in back view, a club in his right hand. On the right, the rim and bowl of a krater standing on the ground, overlapping a figure (drapery over lower legs, feet) seated to left. Below, more of the palmette pattern. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Incised line for hair contour. Dilute glaze: muscles; folds of flesh on bull's neck. Red: wreaths; leaves of trees; hearts of palmettes; edge of each handle flange; band on inside below rim and at bottom of neck, line at outer and inner edge of rim and top side of spiral.; ; Whether the youth with the bull is Herakles or Theseus cannot be determined without an attribute. The stick held by the youth does not really resemble the club of Herakles, which normally tapers to a fine grip, its opposite end stout and heavy. The nudity of the youth seems more suitable for Theseus, although on many occasions Herakles appears nude, even in a scene where he captures the Cretan Bull (see Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig BS 488 by the Delos Painter, on which the hero's name is inscribed: ARV2 172, 4; Addenda 184; there he restrains the beast as it leaps forward). The reason for opting to identify the youth on 234 tentatively as Theseus, as others have done (see below), is chiefly because Theseus and the Marathonian Bull is a far more popular subject in the late 6th and early 5th centuries than the corresponding exploit of Herakles. For the subject, see Heldensage3 254--257 (red-figured examples, where 234 is cat. no. 70); J. Neils, The Youthful Deeds of Theseus [Archaeologia 76], Rome 1987, passim, but esp. p. 154, cat. no. 9 and p. 56 for 234); and F. Brommer, Theseus: Die Taten des griechischen Helden in der antiken Kunst und Literatur, Darmstadt 1982, pp. 27--34; LIMC VII, 1994, pp. 936--938, s.v. Theseus (J. Neils).; ; For encircled palmettes on the necks of red-figured volute-kraters, cf. the following, all in the upper zone and all in reserve, not black glaze: one by the Nikoxenos Painter, Munich 2381 (ARV2 221, 14; Addenda 198); another akin to him, Toronto 959.17.187 (ARV2 223, ---, 2; Paralip. 346, 2); two by the Karkinos Painter: New York, M.M.A. 59.11.20 (ARV2 224, 1) and New York, M.M.A. 21.88.74 (ARV2 224, 2; Addenda 198).; ;  234 probably belongs among those vases akin to the Nikoxenos Painter rather than those by the painter himself or in his manner. The drawing of the figures and drapery is much simpler on the Agora vase when compared with figures by the Nikoxenos Painter, even smaller ones that are set in a frieze: e.g., Munich 2381; Oxford G. 136.36 and 40 (ARV2 221, 15); London, B.M. E 160 (ARV2 222, 19); and Würzburg 531 (ARV2 222, 25). The figures on 234 lack the double vertical line separating the pectoral muscles and the three-dimensional drapery folds that are an essential part of the Nikoxenos Painter's style. The column with the top-heavy capital is best paralleled on Athens, N.M. 1425 (ARV2 223, 6; Paralip. 346, 6), which is akin to the painter.","Object","Red Figured And White Ground | Volute-Kraters"
"","","","","Agora:Object:P 14713","Bowl Fragment","28 March 1939","Agora","","Agora:Image:2012.79.0889::/Agora/2012/2012.79/2012.79.0889.jpg::2048::1385","P 14713","The bottom of a Samian B bowl with ring foot. A groove around the center of the floor. ; ; Rectangular stamp illegible. ; ; Glaze much pitted; light reddish-brown micaceous clay.","Object",""