2008.18.0064 (7-105 A) | Pottery storage that adjoined the records office where Lucy Talcott sits at her desk, at the Old Excavation House, 1937. | 1937 | | |
1997.07.0244 (80-428) | West Basement corridor with M. Crosby. Photographed for Life Magazine. | 31 Aug 1956 | | |
2008.18.0282 (80-428) | Margaret Crosby studying architectural fragments in the basement of the Agora museum, 1956. | 31 Aug 1956 | | |
2009.05.0020 (87-19) | Smashed pottery on and around the rock in the Cross-roads shrine. Detail of pottery deposit (J 5:2). In the northwest corner an Archaic Kore head. | 3 Apr 1972 | | |
2009.05.0070 (89-32-12) | Virginia Grace in Turkey during the Second World War. | | | |
2007.01.0950 | A mortgage inscription naming a woman, the first two letters of her name (ΔΗ) are preserved at the end of the second-to-last line. 5th or 3rd century B.C. | 25 Jan 2005 | | |
2007.01.1200 | Loom weights, from left to right: MC 1499, MC 867, MC 1230, MC 1193, MC 1129, MC 1502. | | | |
2007.01.1273 | Spindle whorls, 6th and early 5th centuries B. C. From left to right: MC 948, MC 373, MC 365, MC 938. | 27 Sep 2004 | | |
2007.01.1698 | Epinetron. Placed over the knee, an epinitron provided a firm surface for working wool. These two examples date in the last quarter of the 5th century B.C. | 27 Sep 2004 | | |
2007.01.2029 | Fragment of red figure lekanis lid. | 16 Sep 2004 | | |
2008.18.0261 | Agora Excavations staff, 1933. Third row (left to right): Charles Spector, Piet de Jong, Arthur Parsons, Eugene Vanderpool, Mary Zelia Pease [Philippides], James Oliver. Second row: Joan Bush [Vanderpool], Elizabeth Dow, Virginia Grace, Gladys Baker, Homer Thompson. Sitting: Lucy Talcott, Benjamin Meritt, Josephine Shear, T. Leslie Shear, Dorothy Burr [Thompson]. | 1933 | | |
2008.18.0280 | Alison Frantz doing the photograph of the amphora P 18348 with a Leica, using a sliding focus and artificial lighting. | 1947 | | |
2009.01.0192 | Black figure skyphos. An exotic blond flute-girl accompanies men on a revel. The man behind her carries a jar full of wine, ca. 500 B.C. | 2 May 2007 | | |
2009.05.0001 | Woman holding a flower, on a red figure skypos from the Crossroads Shrine, last quarter of the 5th Century. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0002 | The Athenian Agora at the time Socrates and Ischomachos had their conversation. The Stoa of Zeus is at the upper left (1). Other places mentioned in this book are the Stoa Poikile (2), Crossroads Shrine (3), Courthouse (5), shops and houses just outside the agora (4, 6, 9), Panathenaic Way (7), and Southeast Fountain House (8). | | | |
2009.05.0003 | The sort of house Ischomacho's wife might have managed: House of the Greek Mosaic (4th century B.C.) not far from the Agora to the southwest. | 25 Jan 2005 | | |
2009.05.0005 | Plain clay hydria, a convention design for a water jug: two handles for lifting, a third for pouring. Second quarter of 6th century B.C. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0007 | A mortgage inscription naming a woman, the first two letters of her name (ΔΗ) are preserved at the end of the second-to-last line. 5th or 3rd century B.C. | 25 Jan 2005 | | |
2009.05.0008 | Drawing of a mortgage inscription naming a woman, the first two letters of her name (ΔΗ) are preserved at the end of the second-to-last line. 5th or 3rd century B.C. | 18 Nov 2005 | | |
2009.05.0009 | Two women with a loutrophoros (container for water for the bridal bath) decorated with branches, painted on a loutrophoros of ca 400 B.C. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0010 | Women performing a line-dance, mid-6th century B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0011 | Red figure lekanis lid.
Eros presents the bridal crown while a woman and another Eros bring gifts. The bridegroom looks on from the side. Early-4th-century lekanis lid. | 16 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0012 | A modest bride, on a cosmetic container of ca. 430-420 B.C. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0013 | Nuptial basin on a stand: the wedding procession above, wool-working below. Late 6th century B.C. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0014 | Eros crowns the bride on a nuptial basin of ca. 420 B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0015 | A woman from the time of Hipparete, ca. 430-420 B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0016 | Athena, patron goddess of Athens, ca. 410 B.C. | 6 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0017 | Fragment of miniature black figure krateriskos. Athenian girls performing the bear dance, while a goat joins in at the left. Late 5th century B.C. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0018 | Woman carrying a kanoun, 4th century B.C. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0019 | Northwest corner of the Agora in the late 5th century; the Crossroads Shrines is in the foreground. | 24 Jan 2005 | | |
2009.05.0021 | Votive gifts of the sort dedicated in the Crossroads Shrine. | 6 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0022 | Dedication of Chrysis to a hero. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0023 | Maenad with Thyrsos. | 11 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0024 | Maenads dancing. The woman at the left beats the tympanon, the one at the right carries a thyrsos, 420-420 B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0025 | Maenads dancing. The woman at the left beats the tympanon, the one at the right carries a thyrsos, 420-420 B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0026 | Dancing maenad playing a krotalon, with satyr at right, on a drinking cup of ca. 500 B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0027 | Black figure cup fragment. Dionysos crowned with ivy and carrying his signature wine cup, ca. 500 B.C. | 6 Aug 2008 | | |
2009.05.0028 | Pairs of maenads and satyrs dance on a drinking cup of the third quarter of the 6th century B.C. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0029 | Maenad with thyrsos pours a libation onto an altar. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0030 | White ground lekythos (oil flask) from a 5th-century cemetery outside the city, found in a rescue excavation supervised by Virginia Grace in 1936. | 12 Jul 2009 | | |
2009.05.0031 | White ground lekythos (oil flask) from a 5th-century cemetery outside the city, found in a rescue excavation supervised by Virginia Grace in 1936. | 25 Jan 2005 | | |
2009.05.0032 | Two women on a lekanis lid of the second quarter of the 4th century B.C; perhaps a scene of dressing the bride for her wedding. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0033 | Classical house south of the Agora. | 18 Nov 2005 | | |
2009.05.0034 | Dressing scene on a water jug of ca. 430 B.C. A woman holds the overfold of her gament in her mouth as she knots her belt. Another woman brings the cloak that will complete her ensemble. | 6 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0035 | The lady of the house holds a perfume flask and a flower; a companion or servant stands beside the bed at the left. A finely decoratated epinitron, ca 440-430 B.C. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0036 | Perfume flasks, 5th and 4th centuries B.C. | 27 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0037 | A cosmetic box with a picture of a chest on its lid, late 5th century B.C. | 6 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0038 | Gold earrings: youthful Eros with a ribbon (4th century B.C.), J 160, baby Eros playing the kithara (Hellenistic), J 154. | 11 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0039 | Women work wool on a stand for a nuptial basin of the late 6th century B.C. A wool basket sits on the floor between them. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0040 | Woman with wool basket, 460-450 B.C. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0042 | Red figre calyx krater fragment. Women's work: patterned garment, 470-460 B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0043 | Dancing women on the lid of a container for cosmetics or jewelry, ca. 420-410 B.C. One woman wears a patterned jacket and carries a krotalon; the other wears a mantle with a patterned border. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0044 | Storage bins, 5th to 3rd century B.C. | 27 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0045 | Bronze lock plate from a house destroyed by the Persians in 480 B.C. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0046 | Multitasking: a young woman and a child, with a wool basket at right, ca. 510-500 B.C. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0047 | Baby boy on a miniature jug, ca. 420 B.C. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0048 | Terracotta figurine, ca 200 B.C. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0049 | Nurse and her charge. Terracotta figurine, 4th century B.C. | 9 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0050 | A youth offers a gift (egg?, fruit?) to a woman, 470-460 B.C. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0051 | Hetaira reclining with a customer at a symposium, ca. 430 B.C. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0052 | Reclining hetaira with krotalon, 520-510 B.C. | 7 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0054 | Image on the floor of late-6th-century drinking cup. Hetaiara offering a wreath at an altar. | 6 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0055 | Image on the floor of late-6th-century drinking cup. Bathing hetaira. | 6 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0056 | Image on the floor of late-6th-century drinking cup. A woman awaits her bedmate. | 23 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0057 | Young woman with elegant hair-do. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0058 | Young woman with elegant hair-do. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0059 | Woman in religious role. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0060 | Woman in religious role. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0061 | Woman in religious role. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0062 | The Agora staff in 1933. The third year of excavation. Virginia Grace is at the center of the middle row; Lucy Talcott and Dorothy Burr [Thompson] are at the left and right ends of the front row, respectively. Dorothy's future husband, Homer Thompson, stands behind her. Other women pictured are Josephine Shear (in the front row, beside her husband, the director of the excavations); Joan Bush [Vanderpool], Elisabeth Dow, and Gladys Baker (middle row); and Mary Selia Pease [Philippides] in the back row. Their responsabilities included excavation, photography, record-keeping, and study of the coins. | | | |
2009.05.0063 | Lucy Talcott, photographed by Alison Frantz on Acrocorinth (ca. 1939). | | | |
2009.05.0066 | Dorothy Thompson figurine: mantled dancer. | 9 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0067 | Male figurine head. | 11 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0068 | Dorothy Thompson figurine. | 9 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0069 | Draped actor figurine. | 11 Oct 2004 | | |
2009.05.0071 | Detail of stamped amphora handle. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0072 | Transport amphora. | | | |
2009.05.0073 | Alison Frantz at work (1947); note portrait of cat. | | | |
2009.05.0076 | An inscription recording leases of the silver mines at Laureion, later reused as a door sill, 339/8 B.C. | 24 Sep 2004 | | |
2009.05.0078 | Terracotta figurine of woman carrying a winnowing basket with offerings of fruit, cakes, and a wreath, 4th century, B.C. | 8 Sep 2004 | | |
2007.10.0086 (LCT-156) | Fruit and vegetables sold in the Agora. To the left krater P 10086 filled with beans. In front P 10118, black glaze salt cellar. To the right P 10548, black glaze lekythos. | Summer 2006 | | |