|
|
http://agathe.gr/guide/south_stoa_i.html South Stoa I Measuring some 80 meters long, South Stoa I takes up much of the south side; its eastern end is the better preserved (Figs. 31, 32). It had a double colonnade, with sixteen rooms behind. It ... The off-center doors indicate the placement of dining couches in the rooms, perhaps used by magistrates fed at public expense, and an inscription found in the building suggests that at least one room was used by the metronomoi, the officials in charge of weights and measures. ... The stoa was dismantled in the middle years of the 2nd century B.C. to make way for South Stoa II. Figure 31. Reconstruction of a dining room in South Stoa I, ca. 430–420 B.C. |
http://agathe.gr/overview/the_old_excavation_house.html The Old Excavation House The photograph below, taken in June of 1939, illustrates the extent of the Agora Excavations during the first eight years. The so-called Old Excavation House, located at Asteroskopeiou ... Planning for the construction of a museum to properly display the important pieces and to house the enormous quantity of excavated material had already begun by 1939, but all work at the excavation was suspended in the spring of 1940 due to the start of World War II. View from the Observatory looking east, showing the extent of excavations in June 1939. ... Pottery storage that adjoined the records office where Lucy Talcott sits at her desk, 1937 The records office, 1937 Pottery mending room, 1937 Pot-menders at work, 1937 Alison Frantz in the photographic studio, 1937 John Travlos working in the architect’s office, 1937 |
|
|
