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Broken on top and sides. Part of two volutes meeting at corner preserved. Small portion of volute preserved on one side. Part of surface at bottom preserved.
From Sounion.
Made of Agrilezza marble. Marble ... 14 June 1972 ... Agora |
Part of one volute and bolster preserved. Part of bottom resting surface preserved.
From Sounion.
Made of Agrilezza marble. Marble dump. Leica ... 14 June 1972 ... Agora |
| Complete, except for chips. Worn. Ionic capital with slightly projecting echinus carved with egg and dart. Slight ridge between two raised bands on bolster. Apparent mason's mark Η on side, above egg and ... 17 August 1972 ... Agora |
| One corner missing, along with chips from two other volutes. Surface generally fresh. Ionic capital, projecting echinus carved with egg and dart. Slight ridge between two raised bands on bolster. Mason's ... 17 August 1972 ... Agora |
| About one half preserved. Small Ionic capital. Egg and dart in somewhat low relief. Plain band on bolster.
Pentelic marble.
Similar in scale, though different series, to A 4434 and A 4435. Modern fill ... 10 August 1972 ... Agora |
Broken below and at right. Very weathered and pocked. Upper left hand corner from sima of Temple of Hephaistos. Incision of palmette visible. Tenon at end missing.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 394, also PD ... 30 August 1972 ... Agora:Object:A 349 ... Agora:Object:PD 1857 |
| Complete except for chips. Large Corinthian pilaster capital, somewhat crude workmanship and deeply undercut.
Front: two eggs on either side of a dart, surrounded by a palmette, flanked on either side ... 2 April 1973 ... Agora, just to the N.E. of the |
| Upper part of head from marble sima; sima not preserved. Part of the ears and one eye, the hair with one row of locks on side and two on top, and upper part of cutting for spout. Much worn and weathered ... March 1973 ... Agora |
| Complete except for chips. Mended from six pieces. Plain shaft, without flutes, Ionic rather than Corinthian because of presumed association with capital formed in area (A 4434 and A 4435). On either side, ... August 1972 ... Agora |
| Broken at one end. Moldings, from top to bottom: a fillet, a cyma reversa, a fascia, a fillet, a flattened ovolo, and two fasciae. On top of back, an ovolo. Much of tooling on front face left visible, ... December 1973 ... Agora |
| All of back and upper moldings with soffit on front broken away. One end, somewhat crudely tooled, preserved. Mended from two pieces. From bottom up: row of dentils on inclined fillet, and a cyma reversa ... December 1973 ... Agora |
| Doric cornice block, no full dimensions preserved, re-cut as Ionic cornice. Slightly more than a third of one mutule preserved, with five guttae. Double fascia on face; soffit above broken away. No certain ... August 1973 ... Agora |
Largely complete, chips missing. Standard Attic Ionic base. Cuttings on opposite sides, apparently for insertion of parapet slabs, with width narrowing from outside to within. No cutting on bottom. Round ... August 1973 ... Agora |
| Roof tile fragment from the Temple of Hephaistos with water-cub, anathyrosis and end of two dowel-cuttings. Anathyrosis very similar to that on sima blocks. Dowel cutting 0.063-0.074m. from edge. Cement ... September 1974 ... Agora |
| Roof tile fragment with water curb and anathyrosis. Cement adhering.
Pentelic marble.
From the Temple of Hephaistos. Probably pulled out of Byzantine barrel-vault. Collected from roof of temple. Leica ... September 1974 ... Agora |
| Roof tile fragment from back of tile showing upper tile overlap of 0.049-0.05m. by strong weathering line. Cement adhering.
Pentelic marble. Probably pulled out of Byzantine barrel-vault. Collected from ... September 1974 ... Agora |
Broken all around. Roof tile fragment with cement adhering.
Pentelic marble.
From the Temple of Hephaistos. Probably pulled out of Byzantine barrel-vault. Collected from roof of temple. Leica ... September 1974 ... Agora |
| Complete except for chips. Doric frieze block preserves one metope and one triglyph. On either side of triglyph is a slot for the insertion of a metope (presumably of marble). The triglyph is not flush ... 9 August 1974 ... Agora |
| Complete. Torus from Ionic base, horizontally fluted with six flutes. Square empolion cutting through center, carved from both sides, and at different orientations.
Naxian marble.
Same series as A 266 ... Second half of 6th century B.C ... Agora XXXI, p. 45, n. 28. |
| Right and left edges only preserved. Other edges broken. The menorah and a palm branch are deeply incised on a thin piece of revetment; apparently placed symmetrically on thin strip of revetment. The right ... 8 May 1933 ... Agora |
Broken all around. Fragment from a roof tile, once glazed, with a large inscription in raised letters set within recessed panel; molded or stamped.
Coarse buff clay.
Trench along north wall of Room 3W, ... 22 July 1977 ... Agora |
| Two T-clamps at each end, but one broken away; lengths 0.102m., 0.115m., 0.113m.; heads 0.064m., 0.062m., 0.07m.; depths 0.018m., 0.022m., 0.025m. Normal anathyrosis with bands and picked inner surface ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| Two T-clamps at each end, but only three visible; lengths 0.12m., 0.12m., 0.122m.; heads, 0.063m., 0.067m., 0.073m.; depths 0.03m. 0.02m. 0.023m.
Thorikos marble.
From same series as A 4603 (Ι 1743), A ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| Two T-clamps at each end, but only one at each end visible; lengths 0.123m., 0.13m., heads, 0.065m., 0.07m.; depths 0.037m. 0.032m.
Thorikos marble.
From same series as A 4603 (Ι 1743), A 4604 (Ι 1744), ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| Two T-clamps at each end, but only one at each end visible; lengths 0.13m., 0.128m.; heads (?), 0.085m.; depths 0.045m., 0.042m.
Thorikos marble.
From same series as A 4603 (Ι 1743) - A 4605 (Ι 1745), ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| Originally two T-clamps at each end, but one is hidden and the other two broken away; length 0.128m.; head 0.08m.; depth 0.055m
Thorikos marble.
From same series as A 4603 (Ι 1743) - A 4606 (Ι 1746), A ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| One T-clamp at each end and one at center of back for attachment to a backer block; lengths 0.097m., 0.112m., 0.12+; heads 0.081m., 0.069m., 0.074m.; depths 0.015m., 0.022m., 0.028m. Anathyrosis at ends ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| Originally one T-clamp at each end (but one broken away) and one at center of back for attachment to a backer block; lengths 0.117m., 0.112m.; heads 0.069m., 0.075m.; depths 0.035m., 0.042m. Anathyrosis ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| One T-clamp at left end (none at right) and one off-center at back for attachment to a backer block; lengths 0.10m., 0.11m.; heads 0.065m., 0.073m.; depths 0.042m.,0.043m. Two pry cuttings at 0.12m. from ... 11 March 1981 ... Agora |
| Band of carved decoration above fluting reminiscent of Erechtheion capitals. Top has cutting for lifting, set off center. Band at top consists of lotus and palmette with bead and reel above.
White marble ... 29 July 1981 ... Agora:Object:A 4644 |
| Intact. Head of triglyph battered; top surface chipped around cuttings for T-clamps. Doric frieze block, consisting of triglyph, backer, and backer for adjacent metopes. Cuttings for T-clamps on each joining ... 23 July 1981 ... Agora |
| Two joining pieces preserving most of capital; three ends of volutes broken away. Surfaces are fresh.
Four-leafed palmette in corner of volute; echinus not carved. Resting surface finished with clawed ... Third quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Agora |
| Right hand end of block preserved, broken at left. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Set upright resting on its back ... 13 November 1985 ... Agora |
| Right hand end of block preserved, broken at left. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Set upright, resting on its back ... 13 November 1985 ... Agora:Object:A 4789 ... Agora:Object:A 4770 ... Agora:Object:A 4771 |
| Broken at both left and right hand ends. One of several step blocks from Square Peristyle building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of Royal Stoa. Set upright, resting on its back face; most of top ... 13 November 1985 ... Agora |
| Small portion of left end of block preserved, broken at right. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Fully exposed except ... 13 November 1985 ... Agora |
| Left hand end of block preserved, broken at right. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Front face much worn but preserves ... 13 November 1985 ... Agora |
| Broken at ends and top, less than half of the left side of the eye is preserved. The curved eyeball is framed by upper and lower eyelids in the form of flat bands raised 0.01m. above the outer edge of ... 25 January 1991 ... Agora |
| Front and back surfaces preserved, broken on all sides.
Flat-finished piece of marble with about one-quarter preserved of sculpted rosette, with round central bud surrounded by two layers of radiating ... 31 July 2001 ... Agora |
| Single fragment, broken off at both sides. Most of back broken away, and missing attached upper part of palmette.
Pediment with crowning palmette akroterion from altar. Four holes at top used for attachment ... 19 July 2002 ... Agora |
| Broken at bottom and chip out of upper right side.
Crowning palmette akroterion from altar-- if from same altar as A 4996, probably opposite end of it. Rough-worked at back. Tool marks on front suggest ... 19 July 2002 ... Agora:Object:A 4995 ... Agora:Object:A 4997 |
| Almost complete; large chip from bottom on one side.
Crowning palmette akroterion from altar. Holes for attachment to A 4995 (See conservation report for A 4995 for more detail). Rough-worked at back ... 19 July 2002 ... Agora |
| Broken off at bottom.
Akroterion from corner of altar. Painted (in shape of volute?). Traces of reddish pigment (see conservation report). Back very rough-worked. Tool marks over sides; either unfinished ... 23 July 2002 ... Agora:Object:A 4999 |
| Broken off at bottom.
Poros limestone corner akroterion from altar. No paint on front surface. Back rough-worked. Tool marks over sides and top; either unfinished or intended to be covered with stucco ... 24 July 2002 ... Agora:Object:A 4998 |
| Two joining fragments, preserving ca. three quarters of seat.
Total width 0.750m; total length 0.50m. Smooth-finished top surface, front and back; rough-worked sides and surface inside the keyhole cutting ... 18 July 2003 ... Agora |
| Mended from two pieces, the fragment preserves the outer left corner of a ship's eye.
Low raised border for eyelid, edge straight. Interior surface flat.
Upper surface polished, back flat and roughly ... 27 July 2007 ... Agora |
Largely complete. Acanthus leaves' tips of first row broken off. Originally covered in plaster and painted. "In the final period of the church all the capitals were painted in bright colors trimmed with ... trimmed with gilt." Agora XX, |
| Complete.
So-called Tower of the Winds type, with lotus leaves springing from behind a single row of acanthus.
Originally covered in plaster and painted. "In the final period of the church all the capitals ... trimmed with gilt." Agora XX, |
| Complete. Three fragments mended at one corner. Some lime-based encrustations from use in drain.
Large square ceramic tile, slightly thickened at edges.
Pale orange fabric with large black and white ... 4th-5th A.D ... Agora |
| Full width and height preserved, broken off toward the rear.
Large eaves tile turned up at the end to form a sima. Deep channel for water behind face. At right edge behind channel the tile has a thickened ... 19 July 2010 ... Agora |
| Fragment of a pan tile, broken on all sides.
Front part of stamp preserved in two rows of letters.
ΙΕ
ΔΙΟ
Coarse yellowish clay.
Cf. A 304, stamped tile from Hellenistic Metroon, Agora XIV, p. 37, ... 5 July 2010 ... Agora XIV, p. 37, plate 30c. |
| Single fragment preserves face and smoothed underside of a drum of intermediate area of shaft.
Tooth-chisel marks on face and underside.
Milky-white marble with gray striations characteristic of Agrileza ... Agora |
| Mended from seven fragments; about one-third complete. Iron stains on surface.
Large, flat marble basin with incurved rim. Very low ring foot on bottom. Top and rim polished, underside finished with a ... 1 July 2011
28 June 2012
29 June 2012 ... Agora |
| Cover tile with antefix, broken off at opposite end. Battered along bottom edges. Antefix surface very worn and chipped along edge. Slip preserved in places. Iron yellow stain on top surface.
Obtuse pitch; ... 29 June 2012 ... Agora |
| Nearly complete sima with moldings, mended from two fragments. Broken at sides and bottom. Thick creamy yellow slip preserved in places. Some painted motives survived.
Rounded at back, joints at interior ... 29 June 2012 ... Agora |
| Nearly complete roof tile. Broken at one end and along bottom edges. Yellow and orange iron stain on top and underside. Some black discoloration.
Obtuse triangular pitch; vertical sides. Concave interior ... 29 June 2012 ... Agora |
| Complete block except for chips.
Rebate on lower front face. The visible (left) end treated with anathyrosis - the interior rough - picked in parallel grooves using a point. Cutting for a dowel at bottom ... 2014 ... Agora |
Library of Pantainos ... Agora |
| Four joining fragments preserve greater part of arched fibula.
Bow of twisted wire; spring (one turn); pin shaft circular in section. Catchplate not preserved.
Submycenaean. Addenda Grave in ethafoam ... 14 June 1973 ... Agora |
| Bow and pin shaft not preserved.
Triple turn.
Submycenaean. Grave 2705 97-21-35(34) ... 14 June 1973 ... Agora |
| Two joining fragments preserving portion of spring (one turn) and pin shaft of fibula, circular in section.
Submycenaean. Grave 2705 97-21-30 ... 14 June 1973 ... Agora XXXVI, no. T63-7, p. 423, fig. 2.307. |
| Three fragments, perhaps joining, preserving portion of possible buckle.
Much corroded.
Object roughly rectangular with well facetted edges.
Submycenaean. Grave in ethafoam in plastic box with lid 2705 ... 14 June 1973 ... Agora |
| Single fragment preserving about one half of bronze ring.
Thin hammered bronze strip. Greater part of bezel not preserved.
Submycenaean. Grave in ethafoam support inside plastic box with lid 2705 97-21-32 ... 14 June 1973 ... Agora |
| Single fragment preserving about one-third of shield ring, including most of underpinning for bezel, itself not preserved.
Submyceneaen. Grave in ethafoam support inside plastic box with lid 2705 97-21-33 ... 14 June 1973 ... Agora XXXVI, no. T63-15, p. 427, fig. 2.308. |
| Seven fragments of shaft of long pin, round in section.
Point preserved. Grave 2415 98-45-4(5) ... 21 July 1997 ... Agora XXXVI, no. T81-3, p. 495, fig. 2.380. |
| Corroded.
Flat piece with consistent thickness. One end rounded.
Drip of bronze (?). House Δ, room 6 tunnel, layer 9 d. in zip lock bag
gloves to be worn 1383 99-40-7, 99-40-8 ... 15 June 1971 ... Agora |
| Complete. Socket end mended. Cracked along midrib. Slight corrosion.
Broad rounded midrib along axis from socket, tapering to point. Two lateral nail holes in socket to fasten shaft.
Bronze. Mycenaean ... 7 July 1998 ... Agora |
| Broken in three fragments: at handle attachment and midway along hilt. Upper part of blade cracked. Three rivets preserved along hilt, two on widest area of blade. Seven complete studs (+one fragmentary) ... 7 July 1998 ... Agora |
| Complete dagger. Well preserved, with slight corrosion. Three bronze rivets preserved along handle with three studs still in place, and three rivets on top area of blade.
Five loose studs. (Also12 more ... 24 July 1998 ... Agora |
| Three joining fragments: blade and lower hilt joined, upper hilt and pommel broken off. Three rivets preserved along handle.
Broad blade, tapering from shoulder to midpoint, then parallel sided before ... 24 July 1998 ... Agora |
| Complete. Mended from three fragments. Corroded and cracked.
Wide blade, tapering at handle end, wider at rounded tip. At handle end, two rounded protuberances edged with tiny flange. Two rivet studs for ... 24 July 1998 ... Agora |
| Complete. Surface corroded and irregular.
Square shank tapering to pointed tip. Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. 8859 ff. Leica PD 2784-11 ... 24 July 1998 ... Agora |
| Mended from fourteen fragments. Corroded, edges missing.
Very thin sheet of bronze. At one corner, two studs for handle attachment (?). Below studs, crescent-shaped cut. Other three sides form rectangular ... 24-30 July 1998 ... Agora |
| Over 150 miniscule fragments and amorphous lumps of bronze or copper representing item of jewelry or personal adornment worn by the deceased during cremation and melted out of shape. Original object unidentifiable ... 8-10, 12 April 1948 ... Agora |
| Single fragment.
Flat, oval copper alloy object with square hole cut in center. Preserves dark brown patina and pale blue corrosion. Inventoried 11 March 2002. Note on original label "BM1 16.2.99" Cistern, ... March 1936 ... Agora |
| Handle attachments for bucket; two fragments, a and b.
Both handle attachments are thicker around holes for attachment of handle and thinner at bucket wall. Maximum diameter of hole is 0.014 for each ... 14 April 1937 ... Agora |
| Intact, but corroded and incrusted.
Bronze cylinder, flaring and with slightly raised collar at rim and base. Lower wall extending below base and cut out to form three feet.
Textile impressions.
Cf ... 27 June 2002 ... impressions.
Cf. Agora X, DM 43, |
| Head of bronze statuette; solid casting. Surface very worn due to chemical stripping of corrosion which resulted in loss of detail. Two holes in top of head perhaps for an attachment.
Golden green patina ... 1956 ... Agora |
| Complete steelyard bar, twisted along length and bent ca. 30 degrees at 0.210m. from short end and 0.280m. from long end. Some iron adhesion in one interstice and a small lump on the offset ring.
Quadrilateral ... 15 June 2004 ... Agora |
| Virtually complete vessel, lifted on a block and "excavated" by two conservators in the lab. Distorted, lopsided and cracked all over but only few gaps in body. Four loose fragments of chain loops. Piece ... 15 June 2004 ... Agora |
| Broken at tip. Head slightly warped at one edge, shaft bent.
Flat oval head, square shaft tapering to a point.
Bronze.
Cf. B 2193 Finished Pyre J 2:26. handle with gloves 8855 ... 25 July 2007 ... Agora |
| Virtually intact, head slightly worn around the edges.
Roughly circular head, with squared shaft, tapering to a point.
Bronze.
Cf. B 2192 Finished Pyre J 2:26. handle with gloves 8855 ... 2 August 2007 ... Agora |
| Bronze strigil mended from several fragments. Extremely corroded, handle splitting, several gaps.
End of scraper lost, most of handle preserved. Handle bent under into a loop. Terminal of handle adhered ... 2 August 2007 ... Agora |
| Round bronze token heavily corroded.
Stamped with letter beta on both sides, one side better preserved than the other.
Cf. Agora XXVIII, T19 (B 1175) and T20 (B 1164), undated. Finished Early Building ... 17 June 2009 ... Agora |
| Mended from at least 18 fragments. Small portion of rim preserved making full profile. Small gap in body close to the base. Highly corroded.
Shallow dish. Plain out-turned rim. Rounded walls slightly ... Mycenaean, LH III A ... Agora |
| Three tiny wire fragments; surface corroded throughout and covered with a hard encrustation.
Round in section, unpierced. Probably part of necklace as found with glass paste beads (J 273). Finished Level ... Mycenaean LH IIIA ... Agora |
| Composed of two bronze bars (a and b), heavily corroded together; broken at both ends. Remains of two overlapping layers of organic material (fiber or fabric as though woven), diagonally attached to large ... 1 June 1938 ... Agora |
| Mended from two joining pieces; heavily corroded.
Long flat narrow blade, tapering at one end to a point. Two rivets at opposite end for attachment to handle.
Mycenaean LHIIIA. Finished Level 4 of ... Mycenaean LHIIIA ... Agora |
| Four joining fragments but only tip piece has been mended. Heavily corroded with incrustations.
Thin blade narrowing at both ends. The blade tapers to a blunt point. Two rivets at opposite end for attachment ... Mycenaean LHIIIA ... Agora |
| Complete; preserved in good condition but for some accretion to the surface.
Leaf-shaped with midrib. Round socket. Small barb projecting past socket.
Context of the 470s B.C. Finished Level 4 of fill ... Late Archaic ... Agora |
| Two arms, broken at both ends, once held together by a thin loop at the top, which disintegrated during excavation; badly corroded.
Thin arms, curving inward toward one another at the grasping point, ... Mycenaean LHIIIA ... Agora |
| Carefully finished with three large holes on one side and one on the other.
Hellenistic group D. Pithos. Leica, 83-385, 99-38-10, 99-38-11 1242 ... 22 April 1932 ... Agora |
Tapering handle; thin round blade, slightly upturned.
Dark brown. Well, dump. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 14 June 1932 ... Agora |
Globular, with small flattened top, and larger flattened bottom.
Decorated with a band of double concentric circles incised around a central dot; above and below this band, three incised grooves.
Brown ... 13 May 1933 ... Agora |
| The two ends are preserved.
Flattened at one end; pointed at the other. Trial pit in Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, IV layer. Leica, 5-226 ... 1933 ... Agora |
The pointed end only remains.
The part next the blade was rectangular in section; the rest round. Trial pit in Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, V layer. Leica, 5-226 ... 10 March 1933 ... Agora |
| Broken into six fragments.
Shows clear traces of burning. Finished Trial pit in Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, IV layer. Leica, 5-226 ... 1933 ... Agora |
| Complete; slightly curved.
The shaft toward the eraser end, rectangular in section. Toward the writing end, round. Rectangular rockcut shaft (no. 312). Leica, XXIV-47 ... August-September 1932 ... Agora |
The "eraser" end preserved. Rectangular rockcut shaft (no. 376). Leica, XXIV-47 ... August-September 1932 ... Agora |
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