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[Agora Object] I 1580: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Broken on all sides (?). Very small bit of left side preserved (?). One line of the inscription preserved. Hymettian marble. Found in late Roman context, over the floor of the Tholos ... 16 March 1934 ... : "Metics and Athenian Phialai-inscriptions" Stuttgart 2010, Historia Monograph 208, p. 141 #35; photo 47

[Agora Object] I 4665: Decree Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Inscribed face only preserved; much worn. Traces of at least seven lines of the inscription preserved. Hymettian marble. Finished Found on the north slope of the Acropolis, east of ... 31 March 1937 ... West Basement-Inscriptions, Block 13C-6

[Agora Object] H 187: Base Fragment of a Corinthian Alabastron with Graffito

Left to right. [--ανέ]θεκε ho.- We might have expected ανέθεκεν in this inscription. The great majority of early Attic dedicatory inscriptions use the movable nu here, the only exceptions being where ... Early Corinthian ... The great majority of early Attic dedicatory inscriptions use the movable nu here, the only exceptions being where space or meter demand the shorter form: cf. ... The erratic use of movable nu among the Hymettos inscriptions is simply an indication that we are dealing with a period before any customary usage was recognized and practiced.

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[Agora Object] J 3: Stone Gnostic Gem

Obverse: Harpocrates seated left on lotus flower. Right arm bent with finger to lips; scourge under left arm. Field completely filled with inscriptions. Edge bevelled smoothly, also covered with an inscription, ... 6 April 1932 ... Field completely filled with inscriptions. Edge bevelled smoothly, also covered with an inscription, single line. ... Armouted body ending in coiled serpent legs; scourge in right hand, shield on left arm. Inscriptions on shield and below serpent legs.

[Agora Object] I 3183: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Top, bottom and sides broken. Treasure records; list of dedications; apparently phialai dedicated by citizens and metics. Opisthographic. On the face, thirteen lines of the inscription ... 9 January 1936 ... Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] I 4763: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Inscribed face and left side preserved. Nine lines of the inscription preserved. Hymettian marble. Found in wall of late pit southeast of the Market Square, east of the late Roman Fortification ... 20 April 1937 ... Inscriptions

[Agora Object] I 5774: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Inscribed face only preserved. Attic Manumission. Six lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon. Space between lines, four including: 0.061m. Space between letters, four including: ... 13 April 1939 ... : "Metics and Athenian Phialai-inscriptions" Stuttgart 2010, Historia Monograph 208, p. 140 #32; photo 46

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1533

Floor fragment with start of stem on underside. Max. dim. 0.054. I, symposion. Man or youth (most of bent left arm, part of draped torso and left leg drawn up and shown frontally) reclining to left, playing ... Ca. 510 B.C ... Red: inscriptions. For the inscriptions, see ARV2 110, 9.

[Agora Object] H 134: Rim Fragment with Graffito

Left to right. -ΑΕ Perhaps a ligature combining alpha and epsilon. For graffito ligatures in general, see Karl Lehmann, Samothrace 2, II, The inscriptions on Ceramics and Minor Objects, New York, 1960, ... For graffito ligatures in general, see Karl Lehmann, Samothrace 2, II, The inscriptions on Ceramics and Minor Objects, New York, 1960, p.30, note 18.

[Agora Object] A 2114: Wall Block Fragment

Broken below; only one end preserved, giving total width. Anathyrosis on end with channel for lead on left side. Cutting for T-clamp. On top, at opposite face from channel, the letters Α Ρ (alpha, rho) ... 1952 ... From unnumbered marbles stored as inscriptions.

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[Agora Object] I 4164: Grave Monument Fragment

Inscribed fragment of grave monument. Top has been chipped away. In one side at midheight, a round sinking. Twice used, the two inscriptions appearing on opposite sides. Three lines of the inscription ... 20 May 1936 ... Inscriptions

[Agora Object] I 3302: Grave Monument

Inscribed columnar grave monument. Chipped at top. The lower part left rough for insertion into the ground. The column has two inscriptions, the first (a) being earlier, and partly worn away. On inscription ... 2nd. century B.C.-1st.-2nd. centuries A.D ... Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] I 5656: Record Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Part of left side and rough picked back preserved. Letters small and very faint. At least thirty-eight lines of the inscription preserved. Hymettian marble. Found among marbles from ... 20 February 1939 ... West Basement-Inscriptions, Block 17C-4

[Agora Object] I 2979: Grave Monument Fragment

Inscribed fragment of columnar grave monument. Early Christian Epitaph. Original top, and almost full diameter preserved. Surface badly worn. There are two inscriptions; the original tombstone one, and ... 7 June 1935 ... Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] SS 15130: Stamped Amphora Handle: Thasian

Well preserved, legible impression. Handle fragment with upper attachment. Rectangular stamp in relief, placed lengthwise on the arch, right part is missing. Inscriptions along both long sides; device ... After 1940 ... Rectangular stamp in relief, placed lengthwise on the arch, right part is missing. Inscriptions along both long sides; device in the center of the field: a ladle, of which only the handle is preserved.

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[Agora Object] I 1118: Marble Fragment: List of Names

Fragment inscribed on two adjacent faces. Broken save for the inscribed faces, which bear separate inscriptions. Name list. Erechtheis. Face A, has been used as a threshold, and has a circular door socket ... 180 A.D ... West Basement-Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] I 1182: Record Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Broken on all but two faces. These have what seem to be independent inscriptions, the longer of which is almost illegible. Treasure record; for Athena and the other Gods. The other ... Early 4th. century B.C ... Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] I 7666: Inscribed and Sculpted Marble Stele

Complete except for a large piece missing at lower left. A large marble stele, decorated on the upper part by a life-sized hoplite shield, sculpted in relief. Below is a fascia, surmounting an ovolo ... 2-3 August 2017 ... Inscriptions

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 676

Shoulder and neck fragment. Scratch on surface. Max. dim. 0.074. Tops of heads of two figures, one a woman wearing a sakkos, the other a man(?) with some kind of head covering, to left. Two dots above ... Ca. 400 B.C ... White: woman's flesh; column; inscriptions; ivy wreath.

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[Agora Object] MC 820: Upper Half of Symbolon

Intact. Inscribed, rectangular, but with toothed lower edge. The inscriptions in black glaze, much flaked. On one side: H Α Λ Ι Μ Ο Σ On the other side: Λ Ε Ο [ Ν Τ Ι Σ ] Traces of red wash on both faces ... 20 April 1950 ... The inscriptions in black glaze, much flaked.

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[Agora Object] SS 15133: Stamped Amphora Handle: Thasian

Moderate wearing, legible impression. Handle fragment. Rectangular stamp in relief, placed lengthwise the arch, right part is missing. Inscriptions along both long sides; device in the center of the field: ... 1939 ... Rectangular stamp in relief, placed lengthwise the arch, right part is missing. Inscriptions along both long sides; device in the center of the field: a pomegranate.

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[Agora Object] I 6090: Dedication Fragment

Inscribed fragment of small monument or dedication; twice inscribed. Smooth worn top and bottom surfaces; part of picked right side and inscribed face preserved. Parts of two inscriptions; ends of four ... 26 March 1948 ... Parts of two inscriptions; ends of four lines in larger letters.

[Agora Object] H 190: Fragmentary Cup or Skyphos with Graffito

Mended from four pieces. Letters incised retrograde with a blunt point which often slipped, leaving long, shallow scratches. -.ς πρόπινε τενδί Young believed the inscription to be ... Jeffery has suggested that the reading should be τενδί-τηνδί with -δι as the epideictic iota which is often found in vase inscriptions. The graffito says " Drink this up."

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[Agora Object] P 23985: Oinochoe Fragment: Inscribed and Polychrome Ware

Twelve joining fragments from side. For shape and fabric cf. P 23900 (Τ 2840). Badly damaged surface shows parts of two grotesque figures, drawn in outline. The flesh here is apparently rendered in pink ... 28 April 1954 ... The flesh here is apparently rendered in pink with white underpainting: not in pink directly on the clay ground, as on the other examples of this class (P 23856, P 23900, P 23907). Inscriptions in black above the heads of the two personages:

[Agora Object] I 3102: Grave Stele

Inscribed grave stele. All surface preserved, except bottom, broken. Just below the upper of the two inscriptions are two rosettes formed of three concentric circles; the right rosette has been hacked ... 9 October 1935 ... Inscriptions

[Agora Object] PNP 89: Red Figure Powder Pyxis Fragment

Rim fragment. The heads of two figures, left: to the left, a youth, his hair bound by a broad red filler; above him his name: XPEMHTIΔHI To the right, the head and right shoulder of a girl. She wears ... 12 January 1931 ... The inscriptions appear to be lightly incised through the glaze.

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[Agora Object] I 7173: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Broken on three sides; left edge preserved. Back smooth. Border of raised band and moulding. Back worn very smooth. Band along edge, where marble has been broken away; originally thicker ... 23 July 1970 ... Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] P 24538: Black Figure Lekythos: Inscribed

Handle, fragments from shoulder and wall missing. General type as P 24533 (ΣΑ 2743). Red line around join of neck. Shoulder: tongues and palmettes with dots (three and two), lotus buds next handle. Above ... May-June 1954 ... Nonesense inscriptions. Below scene: a pair of red lines.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 275

Wall fragment from just below rim (a little of the thinned glaze appears at the very top). Glaze slightly dull on inside. Max. dim. 0.085. Matheson, Polygnotos, p. 465, cat. no. PGU 95. Chariot to left: ... Ca. 440 B.C ... White: wreath; inscriptions. The Group of Polygnotos: Undetermined (ARV2 1056, 83).

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[Agora Object] P 25965: Red Figure Oinochoe Fragment with Graffito: Inscribed

[Originally identified as pelike] Many fragments make up part of shoulder of pelike. Upper part of one side preserved; double row of dots in border to either side of panel; linked dots above. Komos: ... 16 May 1957 ... Red for inscriptions in field and for wreaths.

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[Agora Object] P 24067: Black Figure Lekythos: Inscribed

White Ground. Base missing, otherwise unbroken. Ornament on neck: maeander, ivy wreath, tongues. On shoulder, three palmettes and two buds; on wall, two bulls facing a louterion behing which a palm tree ... 31 May 1954 ... Nonsense inscriptions in field.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 46

Mouth, neck with start of handles, part of shoulder. Glaze fired reddish in places. P.H. 0.09; diam. of mouth 0.115. Lezzi-Hafter, Eretria-Maler, pp. 354--355, cat. no. 308, pl. 189:a, b, fig. 105. A ... Ca. 430 B.C ... White (flaked): inscriptions. The Calliope Painter (ARV2 1262, 62).

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[Agora Object] I 3248: Marble Fragments: Prytany List

Inscribed fragments. Prytany list of the tribe Hippothontis. Fragment Ρ 31, side piece of stele with recessed panel probably for relief. Broken at right, top and bottom. Three inscribed faces; an inscription ... Mid. 2nd. century A.D ... West Basement-Inscriptions

[Agora Object] I 2713: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment; twice used as Ionic capital. Originally the crowning block of a small monument or stele, on the front face the projecting moulding is preserved, and below a curved line marking the ... 2nd.-3rd. centuries A.D ... Fragment of an Ionic column capital bearing inscriptions which were written on it after it had been broken and reduced to its present shape.

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[Agora Object] I 48: Marble Fragment

Wedge-shaped fragment inscribed on both faces. Circular bit of upper surface preserved, joining face (b); other edge broken. Pentelic marble. Finished Found in a modern wall, in the north part or northwest ... 2 July 1931 ... Inscriptions

[Agora Object] I 50: Grave Monument Fragments

Two inscribed fragments of a grave monument. The lower surface of fragment a) joins with the upper surface of fragment b); ring largely chipped away; top surface preserved with hole; both pieces sliced ... 2 July 1931 ... Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] I 53: Marble Fragment

Inscribed fragment from the right side of a block. Right edge and original thickeness preserved; other edges broken; face roughly dressed; back has been rough picked, but is probably not original. Pentelic ... 6 July 1931 ... West Basement-Inscriptions

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[Agora Object] I 71: Grave Monument Fragment

From the left side of a slab finished along the edge with a raised band; bottom and right side broken; top and left side apparently preserved, but badly worn; front and back faces carefully finished. Inscribed ... 18 July 1931 ... Inscriptions

[Agora Object] I 106: Grave Monument Fragment

Inscribed fragment from large columnar grave monument. Only inscribed surface preserved. Band of slight projection, above this part of another convex moulding is continued for 0.12m. in from the broken ... 1931 ... Inscriptions

[Agora Object] I 57: Prytany Decree Fragment

Inscribed fragment with slightly curving face. Broken all around; above, ornament in very low relief, set off from the inscribed surface by a horizontal groove; below the inscription, another groove. Pentelic ... 10 July 1931 ... West Basement-Inscriptions