"Redirect","Collection","Type","dc-subject","dc-title","UserLevel","Id","dc-description","Chronology","dc-publisher","Icon","dc-date","Name","dc-creator"
"","Agora","Publication","","Weights, Measures and Tokens","","Agora:Publication:Agora 10","The first part of this book deals with weights (14 bronze, 109-111 lead, 28 stone) and measures (75 dry, 28-31 liquid). Although humble objects, the detailed study of these everyday items provides archaeological evidence for substantial changes in weight standards at different times in Athenian history. This reinforces literary evidence for a highly centralized bureaucracy controlling trade and commerce. In the second part of the book, Crosby catalogues and discusses some 900 lead and 46 clay tokens uncovered during the Agora excavations. The bulk of the lead material dates from the Roman period, while all the clay pieces belong to the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd centuries B.C. These tokens served diverse functions. Some were used as admission tickets for festivals and theater performances while others can be related to attendance at lawcourts or receipt of tax payments.","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","Agora:Image:2009.09.0040::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0040.jpg::200::267","1964","Agora X","Lang, M."
"","Agora","Publication","","Roman Pottery: Fine-Ware Imports","","Agora:Publication:Agora 32","Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery generally termed terra sigillata found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. These fine wares, like the other table wares of the first seven centuries A.D. discussed here, were all imported—a very different situation to earlier periods where Athens was known as a great ceramic-making center, and perhaps the result of mass destruction of potters’ workshops during the Sullan sack of 86 B.C. While the image of a demolished pottery industry is tragic, the consequent conglomeration of finewares from many parts of the Roman empire in one city makes the Athenian Agora a tremendous source of comparanda for archaeologists working all round the Mediterranean. Written by the world’s leading expert on Roman pottery, this huge catalogue illustrating and identifying multiple shapes and types of decoration will therefore be an essential reference book.","","The American School of Classical Studies at Athens","Agora:Image:2009.09.0062::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0062.jpg::104::150","2008","Agora XXXII","Hayes, J."