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Hill of the nymphs ... Hill of the nymphs |
| Right side of nymph relief with back preserved; top, bottom and sides broken.
Two nymphs, heads missing, dressed in chiton and himation, hold hands and dance left. Rocky cave border at right.
Pentelic ... 9 August 1977 ... Relief Fragment with Nymphs |
| Relief Fragment with Nymphs ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Relief Fragment with Nymphs |
| Relief Fragment with Nymphs ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Relief Fragment with Nymphs |
Hill of the nymphs, Not to scan ... Hill of the nymphs, Not to scan |
| Cistern in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Simple, flask-shaped chamber withdraw-shaft; no tunnels. Mouth cut away in Byzantine times. Lower filling, 3rd c. B.C. Coins:
25 ... 25-30 April 1947 ... Cistern Between Areopagus and Hill of the Nymphs |
| A well on the lower slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, (diam. 1.20m -water level -7m), to 7.90m. The scanty use filling at the bottom contained water jars and pitchers as well as the inventoried objects; ... Second quarter of 6th. c. B.C ... A well on the lower slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, (diam. 1.20m -water level -7m), to 7.90m. |
| Agora from the Hill of the Nymphs (Observatory). Telephoto lens ... east ... January 1952 ... Agora from the Hill of the Nymphs (Observatory). |
| View from the Hill of the Nymphs of the Agora, before 1874 ... Rhomaides Brothers ... Detail of negative 81-92, cf. 1997.02.0243. northeast Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1874 ... View from the Hill of the Nymphs of the Agora, before 1874. |
| Athens and Agora area, from the Hill of the Nymphs (panorama from the Observatory) ... east Horizontal (normal) ... January 1952 ... Athens and Agora area, from the Hill of the Nymphs (panorama from the Observatory). |
| View of the Acropolis and the Areopagus from the Hill of the Nymphs (Observatory) ... AMS
Telephoto Horizontal (normal) ... January 1952 ... View of the Acropolis and the Areopagus from the Hill of the Nymphs (Observatory). |
| Athens and Agora area, from the Hill of the Nymphs (panorama from the Observatory) ... AMS east Horizontal (normal) ... January 1952 ... Athens and Agora area, from the Hill of the Nymphs (panorama from the Observatory). |
| Cave of Pan, assembly of gods and nymphs. Marble relief with inscription. 2nd half of 4th c. B.C ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 ... Cave of Pan, assembly of gods and nymphs. Marble relief with inscription. 2nd half of 4th c. |
| West Slope: Lower western slopes of the Areopagus, looking toward the Hill of the Nymphs. Margarete Bieber, Verzeichnis (Index), #1453 ... west Horizontal (normal) ... West Slope: Lower western slopes of the Areopagus, looking toward the Hill of the Nymphs. Margarete Bieber, Verzeichnis (Index), #1453. |
| Restored plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, to show remains of various periods ... John Travlos ... PD 699 Horizontal (normal) ... 1950 ... Restored plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, to show remains of various periods. |
| Plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, showing the Cemetery of the Archaic period ... John Travlos ... PD 612 Horizontal (normal) ... 1946 ... Plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, showing the Cemetery of the Archaic period. |
| Restored plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, to show remains of various periods ... John Travlos ... PD 699 AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1950 ... Restored plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, to show remains of various periods. |
| Plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, showing the Cemetery of the Archaic period ... John Travlos ... PD 612 AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1946 ... Plan of the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, showing the Cemetery of the Archaic period. |
| At lower left, houses on lowest West Slope of Areopagus, view from the Hill of the Nymphs. Margarete Bieber, Verzeichnis (Index), #19 ... southeast Horizontal (normal) ... At lower left, houses on lowest West Slope of Areopagus, view from the Hill of the Nymphs. Margarete Bieber, Verzeichnis (Index), #19. |
Inscribed fragment.
Back, rough picked, preserved.
Top, bottom and sides broken.
Inscribed on a shallow band below a battered ovolo moulding.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Brough ... 18 January 1937 ... Brough in from behind the hill of the Nymphs, southwest of the Agora. |
| Broken all around, curved surfaces.
Male figure with short chiton and chlamys leads by the hand a female figure. Drapery preserved at right is chiton and himation - Hermes Psychopompas (?). Resembles pose ... 4th c. B.C ... Resembles pose of Hermes and Nymphs.
Pentelic marble. |
| View across the bottom of Drain A. Mycenaean chamber tomb at the east foot of the Hill of the Nymphs. Deposit A-B 18:1 ... (chamber tomb) south 4917 ... June 1947 ... Mycenaean chamber tomb at the east foot of the Hill of the Nymphs. Deposit A-B 18:1. |
| View across the bottom of Drain A. Mycenaean chamber tomb at the east foot of the Hill of the Nymphs. Deposit A-B 18:1 ... (chamber tomb) south 4917 ... June 1947 ... Mycenaean chamber tomb at the east foot of the Hill of the Nymphs. Deposit A-B 18:1. |
| Kylix. Furumark, M.P., p. 60, fig. 16. Description of Tombs and Catalogue of Objects; The Tombs on the Hill of the Nymphs; Tombs V and VI. Hesperia, 17, 1948, p. 165. Description of Tombs and Catalogue ... Agora 13 178 P 17890 A-B 18:1 ... Mycenaean III A ... Description of Tombs and Catalogue of Objects; The Tombs on the Hill of the Nymphs; Tombs V and VI ... Description of Tombs and Catalogue of Objects; The Tombs on the Hill of the Nymphs; Tomb V; Chamber Tomb |
| Broken top, bottom and left sides. Surface weathered.
Frontal figure, broken off below neck and above ankles, wears a short chiton and chlamys. At the left a rocky projection.
Perhaps a relief of Hermes ... 12 July 1978 ... Perhaps a relief of Hermes and the Nymphs.
Pentelic marble. |
| Broken on all sides. Back preserved; rough-picked.
Legs of nude male striding left with drapery falling in front; archaistic.
Perhaps representing row dance of Hermes and the Nymphs.
Hollow cutting on ... 9 August 1977 ... Perhaps representing row dance of Hermes and the Nymphs.
Hollow cutting on back surface from reuse.
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| 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 ... Votive relief depicting Hermes handing over the infant Dionysos to the Nymphs, dedicated ca. 3030 B.C. and reused in Omega House. |
| View from the Hill of the Nymphs; rephotographed from two joining prints from the collection of the University Museum, Philadelphia. The Frankish tower still stands on the Acropolis (destroyed around 1874) ... Rhomaides Brothers ... northeast Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1874 ... View from the Hill of the Nymphs; rephotographed from two joining prints from the collection of the University Museum, Philadelphia. |
| View of the area from "Mt. Theseion" (the large excavation dump). To left, Areopagus; in the middle, Hill of the Muses and Pnyx; to right, Foot of Hill of the Nymphs ... southwest Horizontal (normal) ... 18 Jul 1947 ... To left, Areopagus; in the middle, Hill of the Muses and Pnyx; to right, Foot of Hill of the Nymphs. |
| View from the Hill of the Nymphs; rephotographed from two joining prints from the collection of the University Museum, Philadelphia. The Frankish tower still stands on the Acropolis (destroyed around 1874) ... Rhomaides Brothers ... AMS northeast Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1874 ... View from the Hill of the Nymphs; rephotographed from two joining prints from the collection of the University Museum, Philadelphia. |
| View of the area from "Mt. Theseion" (the large excavation dump). To left, Areopagus; in the middle, Hill of the Muses and Pnyx; to right, Foot of Hill of the Nymphs ... AMS southwest Horizontal (normal) ... 18 Jul 1947 ... To left, Areopagus; in the middle, Hill of the Muses and Pnyx; to right, Foot of Hill of the Nymphs. |
| From a thin plaque; rough-picked back; figures roughly cut in low relief.
Preserved are parts of two draped standing female figures, hand in hand to left. At right a rocky projection.
Hymettian marble ... 24 October 1938 ... ADDENDA The figures represent two nymphs, cf. Fenbel (1930), Die Attischen Nymphenreliefs. |
| Athens, the Pnyx; from the Hill of the Nymphs. From an unpublished and unsigned water color at the Gennadius Library. Probable date 1785. Legend on back "No. 36" (written over an earlier number 25) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1948 ... Athens, the Pnyx; from the Hill of the Nymphs. From an unpublished and unsigned water color at the Gennadius Library. |
Rodney Young ... Grave. RSY Grave 50. Outside archaic cemetery on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs, cremation burial. Roughly square pit (0.80x1.00m). This pit contained a heavy deposit of cinders and ash; its ... Beginning of the last quarter of the 6th century ... Outside archaic cemetery on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs, cremation burial. |
| Part of the west side of Section ΝΝ, the area where the Agora Museum was to be built originally, with Eden and Zephyros cinemas (background) and Apostolou Pavlou Street (center). From the Hill of the Nymphs ... AMS east 9 Horizontal (normal) ... 26 Sep 1938 ... From the Hill of the Nymphs. |
Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs.
This group of ostraka may well come from a single ... Ca. 490-480 B.C ... Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs.
This group of ostraka may well come from a single ostrakophoria, but there is always the possibility that the water of the drain may have carried down earlier or later pieces. |
Handle missing; chips from side.
Watch-shaped body, small discus, top rayed. Long nozzle, triangular at end. Rudimentary unpierced knob at right. Vertical strap-handle.
Signed: "ΑΙΝΕΙΟΥ"; letters in relief, ... 5 February 1940 ... Found by some boys somewhere in the region of the Pnyx and the Hill of the Nymphs. |
| Top and left side preserved, back and front worn by traffic.
Top of stele was rounded. A horned Pan facing front, about to put his syrinx to his lips.
Summary but spirited work.
Pentelic marble.
(This ... 14 May 1936 ... (This fragment may well come from the Byzantine foundation and may ultimately derive from the sanctuary of the nymphs that adjoined the Sanctuary of Bendis in the Peiraeus.)
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| About half of neck reserved. Break for lower handle attachment at lower left. Part of helmet and high white crest right, preserved. At left, just to right of black panel under handle and just above break, ... 7 May 1947 ... Context published as "Valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs, context of the Roman period." |
| Small archaistic relief. Fragment from lower right corner, broken at top and left. Back rough-dressed; sides toothed fine. At the right is a large object roughly blocked out: rocky landscape (?). To the ... 18 December 1936 ... ADDENDA Published as a votive relief of Pan and three Nymphs. |
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