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| Inscribed.
Broken at one end. Surface highly polished.
Tool is rectangular in section, sharpened to point (probably repeatedly) at preserved end. Light incised lines separate letters.
Reverse has several ... 3 August 1968 |
| Inscribed fragment of stele.
The top akroterion and some of the bottom below the setting line broken away; otherwise intact.
An attempt was made in antiquity to break up the stele, and a narrow channel ... 337/336 B.C. |
| Inscribed fragments of votive or funerary reliefs.
Cave of Pan relief.
Fragment Ω 1525, broken all around. Part of top and bottom surfaces preserved. Bottom border of a stele with part of the tenon preserved ... 330-320 B.C. (?). |
| Moulded base only preserved. On outside and undersurface, scraped bands colored with miltos.
Inscribed on concave undersurface:
Good black glaze, inside and out. .to 1.75m. below lip of cistern Cistern ... 20 February 1932 |
| Base fragment of large proto-Attic pot. Possibly a sixth of the circumference of the base preserved. Very heavy walls, flaring and rather thicker at the lower edge. From the resting surface it slopes inward, ... 26 May 1933 |
| A life-size female figure. Missing: head, right arm below elbow, left arm just below shoulder legs below knees.
Left shoulder mended from several fragments.
Island (Parian) marble.
Cf. S 1852 (Η' 920), ... 5th century B.C. |
| Small unfinished statuette. Back and sides of seat present smoothed; unfinished surfaces showing tool marks, perhaps quarry surfaces.
The under surface is cut away leaving in the center a rough projection ... 8 March 1932 |
| Broken at all edges. Reused.
On one side the background has been picked away to depth of about 0.006m. around the outline of a head in profile, which is short-haired and beardless, the features only slightly ... 12 March 1932 |
| Missing: head, right arm just below shoulder, left arm, right leg from immediately above knee, left leg from immediately above ankle; parts of the cloak at the back gone, also the fragments of drapery ... 21 March 1933 |
| In low relief on front, Hermes, his head in profile to the left, his body facing front: head, shoulders, and part of left arm with caduceus preserved. He wears a chlamys. The background is picked, except ... 12 May 1933 |
| In fine preservation.
A portrait of a middle aged woman (Faustina the Younger ?) with rather severe features and with hair parted in the center and drawn down in waves to a chignon in the back, below which ... Ca. 162-166 A.D. |
| Badly damaged; head missing.
The figure stands with the weight on the right leg.
Unfinished; a good part of the marble to his right has not been cut away. Chisel marks clearly visible.
White marble ... 2 February 1934 |
| Preserved from just below the waistline to the neck; left arm broken just below the shoulder; right arm at about 0.09m. from the shoulder. Enough of both arms is preserved to show that the right arm was ... 10 March 1936 |
| Left hand missing, and part of right braid.
The Mother sits on a throne, wearing a low polos and a girded chiton. Her cloak is carried across her lap from right to left, and hangs down beside her left ... 24 April 1936 |
| Square base with moldings around the bottom. Into it is set a column (no capital, top finished off smooth), backed against which are three draped female figures, carved in high relief. Each wears a garment ... 1st-2nd c. A.D. |
| Draped standing figure wearing long chiton with overfold, and a heavy cloak at the back. In the left arm part of a rectangular object: kithara (lyre?).
The weight is on the left leg, the right knee bent, ... 6 April 1937 |
| Relief in a pedimented niche.
The Mother wears a polos and is seated in a chair with a footstool; patera in right hand and tympanon in left; lion in lap.
Small standing figures to her right, and to left; ... 16 May 1937 |
| Mother of the Gods, seated with a lion in her lap, in a naiskos.
Unfinished, roughly blocked out.
Pentelic marble Cistern, 11th century A.D. fill. Leica,7-362, 85-463, 96-76-25 ... 12 June 1937 |
| Small head, of archaic appearance, broken off at neck. Battered at forehead, surface much worn.
Parian marble. Disturbed early fill over channel. 2360 Leica, LXXVII-16, LXXVII-17, LXVII-18 ... 6th or early 5th c. B.C. |
| Complete save for head and projection on right shoulder.
Standing draped woman, her right arm rests on a short square column, her left on her hip; a cloak hangs over left arm and shoulder, and over right ... 11 May 1940 |
| Complete. Rectangular plaque with plain border, tenon for setting below and rough-finished back.
Seven figures in low relief, left to right: draped woman (Demeter) with staff (?) in left hand and patera ... 11 June 1947 |
| Rectangular block, from small herm, plain finished, one end flanged for setting into a socket where it was fastened with a pin. A deep hole in the upper (or lower) face.
Pentelic marble. 4th. c. B.C. filling ... 4th. c. B.C. |
| Broken at level of mouth. Back broken away. Battered (locks on proper left side gone).
From copy of the Pergamon Alcamenes herm type.
Weathering probably more modern than ancient.
Pentelic marble. From ... January 1955 |
| A youth with flowing locks facing slightly to the proper left. The type is that of 'Eubouleus'.
Unfinished: areas to be drilled left rough.
Seven measuring points: two in hair over temples, one in chin, ... 25 June 1959 |
| For detailed description see H. A. Thompson's article in ArchEph (1953-1954), pp. 30-44.
Cf. A 41 for fragments of kithara. Catalogued 1961. Found in 1907 ca. 20.00m. south of Temple of Apollo Patroos ... 1907 |
| Missing head, both arms, edges of mantle and ends of feet. Foot wear on back.
She wears a small aegis with dowel holes for the attachment of metal snakes, a peplos with a long overfold and buttoned sleeves, ... 2nd c. A.D. |
| Intact except for end of nose, chips from ears and upper eyelids, chips from just above left ear. Left side stained brown.
Made to be set into a shaft; the bottom is approximately the frustrum of a cone ... 2nd c. A.D. |
| Broken at neck. Head intact except for tip of nose and chips and wear on hair. Fault in marble near top of head.
Portrait of middle-aged man with bushy beard and masses of curly hair on head and neck, ... 31 July 1970 |
| Rough-picked at back and all four edges, as though cut down and reused from a larger piece. Face of Artemis broken away.
Artemis, facing out but moving left, wears chiton with overfold and thick, twisted ... 7 August 1970 |
| Intact. Perhaps unfinished.
Very personalized portrait of a middle-aged woman.
Long strands of hair, parted in middle, pulled down and back over ears. Hair in back bound in a thick coil. She wears a thick ... 3rd c. A.D. |
| Mended from two pieces. Complete except for chips and bottom of base. Tip of nose chipped.
Portrait of bearded emperor, Antonius Pius, head turned to his left. Hair done in incised waves behind, incised ... 2nd c. A.D. |
| Broken at left and bottom. Back worn down. Surface badly chipped, especially heads of figures.
At left sits Athena, somewhat elevated, resting her chin on her left hand. Left elbow supported by left knee, ... 21 June 1972 |
| Lower left corner missing.
Asklepios and Hygeia stand side by side within naiskos, facing out.
Asklepios is on the left, leaning on a staff, which rests under his right arm. His right hand and wrist were ... 14 July 1972 |
| Broken at neck. Back of head, including part of one ear; appears to have been cut to form flat surface. Tip of beard and nose missing. Very worn. Heavy encrustation on hair above forehead, nothing on re-cut ... 7 July 1981 |
| A prismatic-shaped piece of abrasive stone, perhaps used to rub down or polish marble.
Sandstone.
ADDENDA Identified as "TPOXOΣ", and as being sandstone by A. Georgiades.
Cf. H.S.R. "Notes on Agora Stone-Worker's ... 1 April 1949 |
| One-half preserved.
Flat smooth finished bottom with groove around edge. Flat topped rim with two lugs preserved. Outside and inside left very rough picked. Floral ornament incised on one part of rim ... 11 April 1952 |
| Chunk of pumice with rounded edges; no clear indications that piece had been worked or used.
Low density pumice is quite porous and stained by iron at one edge.
Porous pumice.
ADDENDA Larger chunk (two ... 11 May 1971 |
| Trapezoidal fragment of a marble strip, broken at both ends.
Carved on one face with a leafy rinceau: a four-petalled flower and part of another, surrounded by tendrils-champlevé. Tendrils intrude into ... 23 July 1999 |
| Plan of the Agora showing the location of sculptor's workshops in the residential area southwest of the Agora, in shops just outside the southeastern corner of the Agora, in the South Square, and in the ... 2006 |
| Plan of the house of the sculptors Mikion and Menon, in the residential and industrial district southwest of the Agora, 5th-3rd centuries B.C ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... 2006 |
| Plan of the Librairy of Pantaios, with sculptor's workshop in two of its rooms, 2nd-3rd century A.D ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr. Fred N. Ley ... Version of PD 2327 made for Agora Picture Book 27, 2006 ... 2006
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| Stone/marble tools for Carol Lawton ... Anne Hooton ... PD book says "see Book III p. 42" but no information for PD 2818 in Book III. Drafting Film Drafting Ink |
| Stone/marble tools for Carol Lawton ... Anne Hooton ... PD book says "see Book III p. 42" but no information for PD 2818 in Book III. Drafting Film Drafting Ink |
| Stone/marble tools for Carol Lawton ... Anne Hooton ... PD book says "see Book III p. 42" but no information for PD 2818 in Book III. Drafting Film Drafting Ink |
| A pit filled with emery powder that had been used for polishing stone, in the ruins of a marbleworkers's shop ... Printed backwards. Cf. 2004.01.1797. 3456 Horizontal (normal) ... 28 Jul 1960 |
| An unfinished statuette of a seated female figure from the house of Mikion and Menon, 4th century B.C. The figure in in the early stages of work, with only its general form and seat roughed out with a ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| An unfinished relief, perhaps a trial peice, showing a roughly delineated profile head, from the house of the sculptors Mikion and Menon, 4th century B.C. The head has been outlined with a point and its ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| A fragment of a relief depicting the god Hermes, with claw-chisel work on the background. Late 5th century B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Jul 2005 |
| Unfinished Roman portrait of a woman, from the Library of Pantainos, ca. A.D. 170. One of the sculptor's measuring points, a tiny hole, is still visible in the middle of the chin. Most of the surface of ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 27 Jul 2005 |
| An unfinished statuette of Herakles, showing marks of the flat chisel on the body ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| Roman statuette of the Mother of the Gods with a lion on her side. The Mother of the Gods was an Anatolian deity who became identified with the Greek goddesses Rhea and Demeter ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 2005 |
| Unfinished head of a kouros statuette. Found in the Street of the Marbleworkers, late 6th or early 5th century ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| An "arm" of a miniature herm from the residential and industrial area southwest of the Agora, 4th century B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2006 |
| Fragment of a herm of the Pergamene type attributed to Alkamenes, from the Agora Escavations. 2nd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| Portrait bust of Eubouleus type of young Alexander the Great ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 2005 |
| Decapitated statue of Athena, found and reused as a doorstep in OMega HOuse. 2nd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 27 Jul 2005 |
| Roman portrait head, with drill holes and channels in the hair, beard, eyes, nostrils, and mouth. 2nd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 2005 |
| Relief depicting Artemis, found in a well in Omega House. Her face has been mutilated. 2nd-3rd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| Portrait bust of a Roman matron, found in a well of Omega House. 3rd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 27 Jul 2005 |
| Relief depicting Athena Ergane overseeing five female figures. Early 4th century B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jul 2005 |
| An abrasive tool used for finishing sculpture, found in the debris of a sculptor's workshop of the Roman period ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| An unfinished marble basin with inscribed letters indicating that it was being carved from a reused stone ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| A bone stylus inscribed with the name of the sculptor Mikion ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| An akroterion perhaps depicting a Nereid that has been attributed to the Hephaisteion. Late 5th century B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 28 Jul 2005 |
| A statue of Nike, an akroterion that has been attributed to the Temple of Ares or the Stoa of Zeus. Early 4th century B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 2005 |
| Votive relief depicting Hermes handing over the infant Dionysos to the Nymphs, dedicated ca. 3030 B.C. and reused in Omega House. All of the figures have been defaced ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 18 Jan 2006 |
| A fragment of a torso of Athena with drill holes for attaching bronze snakes to her aegis. Ca 420 B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 2005 |
| The colossal statue of Apollo Patroos, probably by Euphranor, found near the Temple of Apollo Patroos on the west side of the Agora, ca. 330.B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 28 Jul 2005 |
| Bust of the emperor Antonius Pius (A.D. 138-161), found in a well in the Omega House ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 28 Jul 2005 |
| The head of a herm. Found in the area known as "the Herms", ca. 500 B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 2005 |
| Hellenistic statuette of the Mother of the Gods in a naiskos, with a small lion in her lap, a tympanon in her left hand, and small figures of Hermes and Artemis ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 30 Jul 2005 |
| Statuette of Apollo Patroos, a copy of the statue of Apollo Ptroos by Euphranor, found in a 4th-century A.D. context i a welll on Kolonos Agoraios ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 30 Jul 2005 |
| A Hellenistic statuette of Aphrodite, with the baby Eros behind her right shoulder. The statuette is a rare example of sculpture from the Agora with some of its paint still preserved ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 30 Jul 2005 |
| A votive relief depicting Demeter, her daughter Persephone, Eubouleus with the baby Ploutos, and worshippers. Demeter, the goddess of agriculture was one of the most important deities worshipped in the ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 30 Jul 2005 |
| Head of the goddess Nike, found in the well of Omega House, 2nd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 2005 |
| A kantharos base inscribed with the name of the sculptor Menon ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 8 Feb 2005 |
| An unfinished statuette of the Mother of the Gods, still showing the preliminary stages of work done with a point ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 12 Jul 2005 |
| Detail of Nike akroterion showing drill marks undercutting the drapery in order to create contrasts ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 6 Aug 2005 |
| Votive relief of Asklepios and Hygeieia, with a drill hole for a repair to the right arm of Asklepios, probably to correct a mistake made by the sculptor. 4th century B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Jul 2005 |
| A well-preserved, simplified version of Alkamene's Hekate illustrates her three-bodied form. 1st-2nd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Sculptors sometimes worked with masons to produce reliefs on inscribed public documents. This relief on the anti-tyranny law of 377/6 B.C. depicts Democracy crowning Demos (the Athenian People) ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Aug 2008 |
| A Triton from the second facade of the Roman Odeion, ca. A.D. 150-175, illustrates the continuity of scultpural practice in the Agora. The torso of the Triton was strongly influenced by one of the fugures ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 6 Aug 2005 |
| The gallery of the Stoa of Attalos, displaying sculpture from the Agora excavations ... Craig Mauzy ... Architecture and Topography | By Area | East | Stoa of Attalos | Reconstruction | Ground Floor | Ground Floor Colonnade | General Views
Architecture and Topography | By Monument Type | Stoas | Stoa of ... 14 Aug 2005 |
| Seated deities on the east frieze of the Hephaisteion, the well-preserved Classical temple on Kolonos Agoraios, the hill overlooking the Agora, ca. 430-425 B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Sep 2005 |
| Plan of the Agora showing the location of sculptor's workshops in the residential area southwest of the Agora, in shops just outside the southeastern corner of the Agora, in the South Square, and in the ... DA 12869 Version of PD 1197 Horizontal (normal) |
| Plan of the house of the sculptors Mikion and Menon, in the residential and industrial district southwest of the Agora, 5th-3rd centuries B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... PD 1825-2006 Horizontal (normal) |
| Plan of the Library of Pantainos, with sculptor's workshop in two of its rooms, 2nd-3rd century A.D ... Craig Mauzy ... PD 2327-2006 Horizontal (normal) |
| Mallet, pointed chisel and punch. Drawing by Anne Hooton ... PD 2818 Horizontal (normal) |
| Claw chisel, flat chisel, and round chisel. Drawing by Anne Hooton ... Craig Mauzy ... PD 2818 Horizontal (normal) |
| Strap and bow drills. Drawing by Anne Hooton ... PD 2818 Horizontal (normal) |
| View of the west frieze of the Hephaisteion, in situ, ca. 430-425 B.C ... Alison Frantz ... Horizontal (normal) ... 13 Jun 1955 |
| Detail of the west frieze, slab 2, of the Hephaisteion: Centaurs pounding Kaineus into the ground ... Alison Frantz ... Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1949 |
| Detail of the west frieze, slab 2, of the Hephaisteion: Centaurs pounding Kaineus into the ground ... Alison Frantz ... Large version of negative. Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1949 |
| Detail of the west frieze, slab 2, of the Hephaisteion: Centaurs pounding Kaineus into the ground ... Alison Frantz ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1949 |
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