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| Fragment from left end joint surface, preserved to bottom of via. Broken on right side. Traces of red and blue Doric leaf on crowning hawk's beak, red on face and on soffit of via. Nail hole with lead ... April 1949 ... bottom of via. Broken on right ... soffit of via. Nail hole with ... Fragment from left end |
One fragment, mended from several, preserves part of the shoulder and rim; another comes from the body below the shoulder. A number of shoulder and body fragments do not join. Nothing of base preserved ... 25-26 May 1936 ... Stamnos Fragments with Paint Decoration |
| Leg of life-sized figure, presumably male, bare from lower calf to ankle; possibly left leg with slight swell for start of calf muscle, beginning of outward curve over instep. Surface smoothed but not ... Context mixed to 5th c. A.D.; grave 1st c. with later interments ... Irrigation Channel Excavations, Painted Tomb, upper fill |
| a) Right arm from shoulder to wrist.
Traces of white paint.
b) Fragment from waist of small draped figure (?)
c) Fragment of mold of drapery from large figurine.
Straight folds.
Mould-made.
Pinkish ... 1 June 1932 ... Fragments from Figurines |
Fragment of mutule and two guttae. Original top. Broken at front, back, and right end. Joint surface at left. Half of mutule on next block. Via partly preserved at right.
Light buff poros with holes in ... 12 May 1953 ... (guttae) 0.042; W. (of half of ... of guttae) ca. 0.071 |
Fragment, mended from three, gives nose, upper part of gaping mouth, lower part of eyes, and hair on the mask's left side from nose to top of fragment.
A non-joining piece (fragment b) gives also two locks ... 28 March 1939 ... Mask Fragments |
| Three non-joining fragments.
Fragment a) from the left edge, with a plain framing band. To left: an altar, garlanded, and with a fire burning on it; in background a stele; a hand with phiale pouring libation ... 9-15 May 1935 ... 18, pl. 6, no. 24 (fragment ... (fragment b); pp. 18-19, pl. 5, no. 26 (fragment d). |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/tyranny.html Tyranny As happened in many other Greek states, a tyrant arose in Athens in the 6th century B.C. His name was Peisistratos, and after several unsuccessful attempts he seized power in 546 B.C. and ruled ... Birth of Democracy: Tyranny |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_prytaneis.html The Prytaneis (Executive Committee) The senators administered their meetings themselves. Each tribal contingent in the Boule served in rotation for a period of 35 or 36 days as the Prytaneis, or Executive ... Birth of Democracy: The Prytaneis |
From a krater, middle orange on buff.
ADDENDA 2018: Single sherd to a krater with no other preserved features.
The exterior is decorated with fish motif, of which the tail half is preserved. The interior ... LH IIIC Early-Middle ... Vermeule, E. & Karageorghis, V., 1982, Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting, p. 219, |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/state_religion.html State Religion: The Archon Basileus There was no attempt in Classical Athens to separate church and state. Altars and shrines were intermingled with the public areas and buildings of the city. A single ... Birth of Democracy: State Religion |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_popular_courts.html The Popular Courts The popular courts, with juries of no fewer than 201 jurors and as many as 2,500, heard a variety of cases. The courts also had an important constitutional role in wielding ultimate ... inscription painted on the lid of ... popular courts, with juries of ... a variety of cases. The |
| Broken above and to left. Preserves right end of block with anathyrosis band.
Mutule broken away. On face and above via, red paint.
From the Temple of Ares.
Pentelic marble. Found at J/10-7/18 (Fall 2016) ... 19 April 1951 ... Cornice Fragment |
From a krater, brown (mostly flaked off) on buff.
ADDENDA 2018: Single sherd to a krater with no other preserved features.
The exterior decoration is panelled and features a side triglyph with vertical ... LH IIIC Early ... Vermeule, E. & Karageorghis, V., 1982, Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting, p. 219, |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_athenian_aristocracy.html The Athenian Aristocracy Before democracy, from the 8th to the 6th century B.C., Athens was prosperous economically but no more significant than many other city-states in Greece. Silver deposits south ... Birth of Democracy: The Athenian Aristocracy |
Only a bit remains from the junction of the neck and shoulder. The root of the neck encircled by a brown band. Only a tip of the shoulder decoration preserved: the bow of a ribbon.
Dull gray clay covered ... 1932 ... Lagynos | Decorated | Fragments |
| Bottle with cylindrical body; painted with double yellow medallions with row of large yellow dots between lines. Gold scroll-work fills spaces between the medallions. Blue glass, good material, no weathering ... 11th to mid 12th c ... AJA(1940) p 320 fig 19, N60; Corinth XII P115 N751. Journal of Glass Studies |
| Four major fragments, and a number of small scraps, from two or more altars.
Fragment a), upper left side, with voluted end of top; traces of a round object attached to upper surface.
Traces of white paint ... 27-28 June 1935, 26-27 May 1936 ... Hesperia 34 (1965), p. 48, no. 11, pl. 15, (fragment d). |
| Part of the upper portion and neck of a small lagynos decorated on a white slip with brownish-black band at the base of the neck and bows hanging beneath with streaky lines beside them. Trench 7, south ... 5 May 1934 ... Part of the upper portion and neck of a small ... band at the base of the neck |
From upper body. Around outer edge, two glaze bands; over the thick white slip, in red to brownish paint, part of design of festoons, tied with looped ribbon.
Fine deep pinkish buff clay. Cistern. Leica ... 9-15 May 1935 ... Lagynos | Decorated | Fragments |
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