"Redirect","dc-creator","Icon","UserLevel","Id","Type","dc-date","Collection","Chronology","Name","dc-publisher","dc-subject","dc-title","dc-description"
"","Miles, G. C.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0035::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0035.jpg::104::150","","Agora:Publication:Agora 9","Publication","1962","Agora","","Agora IX","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","The Islamic Coins","All but 9 of the 6,449 Islamic coins found at Athenian Agora up to the date when this book was written belong to the Ottoman period. The earliest datable Ottoman coin is from the reign of Mehmed I (1413-21). Most of the coins come from overseas mints such as those of Istanbul, Cairo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Bosnia. Although the name of Athens cannot be read on any coin, the author thinks that many of the crude coppers of the 15th to 16th centuries A.D. were locally struck."
"","Lang, M.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0040::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0040.jpg::200::267","","Agora:Publication:Agora 10","Publication","1964","Agora","","Agora X","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","Weights, Measures and Tokens","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."
"","Harrison, E. B.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0041::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0041.jpg::200::268","","Agora:Publication:Agora 11","Publication","1965","Agora","","Agora XI","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","Archaic and Archaistic Sculpture","Over 170 catalogued pieces of sculpture from the Athenian Agora are divided into four sections: the genuinely Archaic in date and form, the “archaistic” imitating Archaic originals (late 5th century to early 4th century B.C.), and two restricted groups of sculpture common in Athens. The latter are the Hekataia (a triple Hekate figure) and the herms. The chronological range is thus from the earliest Archaic kouros (ca. 600 B.C.) through the herms and Hekataia of the Roman period. Among other questions, the author explores the nature of the archaizing movement and the different types of herms and how they were used in the Agora."
"","Sparkes, B. A.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0042::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0042.jpg::200::263","","Agora:Publication:Agora 12","Publication","1970","Agora","","Agora XII","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.","This massive (two-part) volume focuses on pottery produced between 600 and 300 B.C. with Sparkes discussing the black glaze and Talcott the domestic (household and kitchen) wares of the period. Over 2,040 pieces of black-glaze pottery are catalogued and described, with many drawings and photographs."
"","Immerwahr, S. A.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0043::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0043.jpg::379::500","","Agora:Publication:Agora 13","Publication","1971","Agora","","Agora XIII","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","The Neolithic and Bronze Ages","The finds in the Athenian Agora from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages have added important chronological context to the earliest eras of Athenian history. The bulk of the items are pottery, but stone, bone, and metal objects also occur. Selected material from the Neolithic and from the Early and Middle Helladic periods is catalogued by fabric and then shape and forms the basis of detailed discussions of the wares (by technique, shapes, and decoration), the stone and bone objects, and their relative and absolute chronology. The major part of the volume is devoted to the Mycenaean period, the bulk of it to the cemetery of forty-odd tombs and graves with detailed discussions of architectural forms; of funeral rites; of offerings of pottery, bronze, ivory, and jewelry; and of chronology. Pottery from wells, roads, and other deposits as well as individual vases without significant context, augment the pottery from tombs as the basis of a detailed analysis of Mycenaean pottery. A chapter on historical conclusions deals with all areas of Mycenaean Athens."
"","Thompson, H. A.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0044::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0044.jpg::200::257","","Agora:Publication:Agora 14","Publication","1972","Agora","","Agora XIV","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","The Agora of Athens: The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center","The subtitle, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center, suggests the general character of this volume, which provides an overview of the area that served as the civic center of Athens from about 600 B.C. to A.D. 267. After a general resumé of the historical development of the Agora, the monuments are treated in detail, grouped by their use and purpose. Each monument is discussed in the light of both the literary and the archaeological evidence for its identification and its restoration. In the light of the topographical conclusions the route of Pausanias is traced. A chapter “After the Heruli” follows the fortunes of the area from A.D. 267 till the 19th century; the last century is treated in the detailed report of “The Excavations” up to 1971. This is a definitive survey of the historical and topographical results of 40 years of American excavations."
"","Meritt, B. D.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0046::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0046.jpg::382::500","","Agora:Publication:Agora 15","Publication","1974","Agora","","Agora XV","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","Inscriptions: The Athenian Councillors","This book presents 494 dedications made by, and honoring, members of the Athenian administrative assembly (prytaneis) between 408/7 B.C. and A.D. 231/2. The inscriptions are important because they enable scholars to reconstruct a more precise chronological framework for Hellenistic and later Athenian history while also increasing understanding of the political organization of Attica. With thousands of names from 700 years of administration listed, the dedications also provide a rich source for prosopographers."
"","Woodhead, A. G.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0047::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0047.jpg::200::268","","Agora:Publication:Agora 16","Publication","1997","Agora","","Agora XVI","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","Inscriptions: The Decrees","Edited texts, with extensive commentary, of some 344 fragments of Attic decrees dating from the mid-5th century B.C. to A.D. 203, found in excavations of the Athenian Agora before 1967, with brief notes on additional material found up to 1975. Well-documented discussions of individual archon years are supplied at the appropriate points in the chronological arrangement. In a field known for controversy, the author reviews the principal readings, restorations, and interpretations, achieving a balance between extreme positions."