[Agora Object] P 25686: Black Glaze Kantharos Fragments

Three fragments of which two join, giving neck and beginning of shoulder. Straight rim with ridge below on exterior. Two lightly incised lines beneath the glaze at juncture of neck and shoulder. Black ... March-April 1956

[Agora Object] P 25687: Black Glaze Fish Plate

Three fragments join to make plate lacking most of its rim and a piece of the center floor. Scraped groove around central depression and at outer edge of floor. Glaze once good, now much scratched and ... March-April 1956

[Agora Object] P 25688: Black Glaze Lekanis

Numerous fragments make up lekanis that is complete except for some chips from the rim. Broad-based foot. Resting surface of foot reserved. Bottom has reserved circle. Walls not smoothly made, perhaps ... March-April 1956

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[Agora Object] P 25691: Lekane

Fragments make up basin complete but for one handle and fragments of wall. Restored in plaster. Steeply flaring wall; flat base; neatly rounded rim. Handle set close up under rim. Thin red glaze on rim ... March-April 1956

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[Agora Object] P 25694: Black Figure Cup Fragment

Floor fragment of late black figured kylix, preserving beginning of stem. A satyr moving right, looks left. Part of border of tondo preserved: black line between two lines, accidentally fired red. Torso ... 23 June 1956

[Agora Object] P 25742: Amphora Fragment with Dipinto and Graffito

Most of neck and both handles (no stamps) preserved. Traces of red paint on one side of the neck may be a dipinto. Graffito (on other side of neck?): Unglazed, micaceous pink-tan clay. Cf. Hesperia ... 24 October 1956

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[Agora Object] P 25744: Black Glaze Bowl with Rouletting and Graffito: Type C and Stamped

Enough preserved to recover profile. Restored in plaster. Connected palmettes radiating out from center; circled by broad band of rouletting and incised line. Graffito in bottom of base: Glaze in excellent ... 24 October 1956

[Agora Object] P 25746: Cup Fragment with Relief Decoration

Bit of rim of thin-walled cup. Low conical projections with stems from relief decoration below rim. Black glaze. Gray clay. ADDENDA North Italian [JWH]. Fill of deep passage leading north from rectangular ... 26 October 1956

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[Agora Object] A 3460: Capital Fragment with Mason's Mark: Ionic

Badly battered on volute face; rear face broken away except at right end where some of the original shows. Bolsters quite well preserved except on bottom faces where trimmed off to flatten block for reuse ... 22 May 1964

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[Agora Object] A 3475: Statue Plinth

Complete. Corner block from the plinth of a large monument. Finished on two adjacent sides with a cyma reversa. In top a shallow bedding, apparently for a colossal left foot. Hard gray poros. (Consider ... 2 September 1964

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[Agora Object] A 3476: Statue Plinth

One corner hacked away by the house builder. From another corner of the same monument as plinth A 3475. In this case, however, the bedding for the foot extended into a second (missing) block. Socket for ... 2 September 1964

[Agora Object] IL 1420: Iron Suspension Loop

Oxidized but complete. Bolt with suspension loop and short stem. Bronze casting pit. Leica, 87-427, 79-4-8 2249-4 ... 24 October 1956

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[Agora Object] P 3772: Unguentarium

A sizable flat-bottomed unguentarium; the top broken off and chipped (mended). Red clay, gray-brown surface, spotted red by uneven firing. Trench 7, south end. Leica ... 4 May 1934

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[Agora Object] BI 752: Ivory Relief

Bearded head wearing wreath. Complete except for chips from nose, wreath and beard. Two holes in forehead, and one in beard for attachment of head to a box or piece of furniture. Face is cut at edge to ... 9 May 1956

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[Agora Object] BI 753: Ivory Veneer

Found stamped into the earth in a very ruined condition. A rectangular frame of ivory can be seen which was filled with squares of ivory. Around this inner frame would have gone another rectangle (of which ... 2 June 1956

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[Agora Object] T 2474: Standing Female Figurine

The figure wears a chiton falling in broad straight folds to the feet, and over this a thin himation wrapped around the body to the hips and covering both arms. Mended from three pieces; the back, the ... 350-320 B.C.

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[Agora Object] T 4102: Mold Fragment

Broken on three sides. One side, front and back preserved. Subject uncertain: smooth cylindrical surface wth depressions at both ends. Back smooth. Fabric pinkish-yellow with slight gray core. Cf. T 4099 ... 29 June 1973

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[Agora Object] S 1941: Herm Head

Preserved to just below neck. Features blurred, but eyes and mustache still distinguishable. Lower part of beard broken off. Surface badly battered; fillet on head barely distinguishable. Hermes Propylaios ... 24 April 1956

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[Agora Object] S 1942: Head Fragment of Lioness or Lion

Part of the mouth and nose have been broken off as has the left ear. The neck is sufficiently preserved to show that the head is turning left. The roughly chiseled back may be original and the head perhaps ... 500-450 B.C. (?).

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[Agora Object] S 1945: Herms Incised on Stone

Fully preserved. Roughly oblong chunk of marble with two herms, one above the other incised in it. Lower herm ithyphallic, upper not. Very crudely done. Pentelic marble. From dump of earth from cistern ... 12 May 1956

[Agora Object] S 1946: Herm Head

Head of bearded man of which third of head at back, nose and parts of beard chipped off. Archaistic curls at brow line. Pentelic marble. Stony Byzantine fill. Leica ... Presumably Roman.

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[Agora Object] S 2004: Statuette Fragment: Aphrodite

Lower part of statuette of Aphrodite in Cnidian pose but wearing himation around legs. Small water jar at right. Preserved from knees to bottom of base. Island marble ADDENDA: Joins with S 3140 (B.A.M ... 4 June 1957

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[Agora Object] S 2168: Statuette Fragment: Draped Female

Preserved: proper left side from shoulder to knee, one arm to elbow, and also part of support. Draped female figure with left arm resting on support consisting of upper part of female figure wearing polos ... 14 May 1964

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[Agora Object] S 3095: Statuette Fragment: Aphrodite

Broken at level of pubis, left hand broken off. Base and left-sided support intact. Mended from two pieces. Half-draped Aphrodite, of type S 2004, with weight on her left leg. Himation held up in front ... 13 July 1978

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[Agora Object] S 3202: Statuette Fragment: Asklepios

Broken at waist and below knees. Heavily encrusted catenary patterns of drapery over figure's stomach and at right, hanging from arm. Asklepios type, see S 710. Pentelic marble. From circled marbles ... 11 July 1978

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[Agora Object] S 3208: Statuette Fragment: Aphrodite

Broken above knees and across drapery's fall at figure's right. Mended from two pieces. Half-draped Aphrodite of type S 2004, standing on her right leg, left knee bent and foot slightly behind. Drapery ... 12 July 1978

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[Agora Object] S 3224: Statuette Fragment: Draped Figure

Broken across thighs; feet broken off. Draped figure with weight on right leg. Left leg bent back. Vertical folds of drapery over right leg. Back very roughly worked. Long mantle down back. Zigzag fold ... 27 July 1978

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[Agora Object] S 3225: Statuette Fragment: Draped Female

Lower part, broken off through thighs. Rough-picked bottom. Lower edge chipped in front; both feet broken off. Right knee chipped. Female wearing chiton and himation. Weight on left leg. A smooth projection ... 27 July 1978

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[Agora Object] T 3478: Standing Warrior Figurine Fragments

About half preserved, mended from several fragments. Large figurine of a soldier or warrior wearing a tunic, a cloak and high-laced sandals. He holds a shield (strap only preserved). Dark reddish clay ... 27 April 1956

[Agora Object] T 3480: Leg

One leg of object: couch, throne or stand? Preserved to finished top of seat; projecting sides broken off. Lion-paw leg with horizontal grooves extending also along cross bar at top. Back of object incised ... 1956

[Agora Object] ST 657: Pumice

Flattened on several sides by wear. Small stone, one of four or five similar ones found in the pit. Bronze casting pit. 2287 Leica ... 24 October 1956

[Agora Object] ST 813: Pumice

Small light stone with many small flattened surfaces and one shallow channel. Casting pit. From box 322. 2287 Leica, 87-427, 79-4-8 PD 2249-4 ... April-May 1956

[Agora Object] ST 814: Pumice

Light weight stone with one smooth curved surface on which are darkened areas, perhaps from polishing burned surface (casting skin) of bronze. Bronze-casting pit. From box 322. 2287 Leica, 87-427, 79-4-8 ... April-May 1956

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[Agora Object] SS 14126: Stamped Amphora Handle: Thasian

Shield. Finished Chiefly Byzantine fill near Byzantine houses. Θασ̣ίω̣ν̣ shield [---] Leica ... 18 May 1956

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[Agora Object] SS 14142: Stamped Amphora: Knidian

Whole jar, missing chip from rim. Capacity: (poly, 12.vi.78) 27.280; Capacity: (wheat, VG 11.xii.86) 29.700. Stamp on one handle. Prof: PD 1454-92* Dim: H 0.793, Dmax 0.348, HH 0.27-from record of Roll ... May 1956

[Agora Object] SS 14151: Stamped Amphora Handle: Knidian

Stamp very faint; two gouges have destroyed part. Cistern. [ Ἐπὶ Ἀριστοκ]λ̣εῦς [ Ἀπολ bouk λωνί]ου [ Κνίδι ranion ον] (Σ lunate, Α broken-barred) 2305-2310 Leica ... May 1956

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[Agora Report] 1956 ΠΠ: Section ΠΠ March-June, 1956

A. Boegehold ... The ruins unearthed in section ΠΠ represent six roughly defined periods: 4th century B.C. to Hellenistic, Augustan, pre-Herulian, post-Herulian, Byzantine and Turkish. The results of the excavation are ... 20 Feb-29 Jun 1956