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[Agora Object] S 2415: Relief Fragment with Sacrifice Scene

Broken at top. Some chips missing from sides. At left a rectangular altar behind which stands a draped figure, her left hand and the folds of her garment are visible. Beside her, in the middle of the relief, ... 17 May 1971 ... Relief Fragment with Sacrifice Scene

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[Agora Image] 2012.83.0310 (97-13-27a)

Relief Fragment with Sacrifice Scene ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Relief Fragment with Sacrifice Scene

[Agora Publication] Bundrick (2014): Selling Sacrifice on Classical Athenian Vases

Bundrick, Sheramy D ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 83.4 4 653-708 ... 2014 ... Selling Sacrifice on Classical Athenian Vases

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[Agora Image] 2012.83.0311 (97-13-28a)

Relief Fragment with Sacrifice Scene, S 2415 ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Relief Fragment with Sacrifice Scene, S 2415

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[Agora Image] 1997.18.0008 (83-633)

Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of goat ... 340 Horizontal (normal) ... 1964 ... Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of goat.

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[Agora Image] 2012.56.1358 (83-633)

Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of goat ... AMS 340 Horizontal (normal) ... 1964 ... Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of goat.

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[Agora Image] 1997.18.0004 (83-602)

Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a bull ... 336 Horizontal (normal) ... 1964 ... Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a bull.

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[Agora Image] 1997.18.0006 (83-604)

Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a goat ... 338 Horizontal (normal) ... 1964 ... Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a goat.

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[Agora Image] 2012.56.1324 (83-602)

Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a bull ... AMS 336 Horizontal (normal) ... 1964 ... Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a bull.

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[Agora Image] 2012.56.1326 (83-604)

Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a goat ... AMS 338 Horizontal (normal) ... 1964 ... Altar of Artemis in Bakcheion: sacrifice of a goat.

[Agora Publication] Stocker and Davis (2004): Animal Sacrifice, Archives, and Feasting at the Palace of Nestor

Stocker, Sharon R. Davis, Jack L ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 73.2 2 179-195 10.2307_4134892 ... 2004 ... Animal Sacrifice, Archives, and Feasting at the Palace of Nestor

[Agora Publication] Morton (2015): The Experience of Greek Sacrifice: Investigating Fat-Wrapped Thigh Bones

Morton, Jacob ... Oxford Books ... 66-75 ... 2015 ... The Experience of Greek Sacrifice: Investigating Fat-Wrapped Thigh Bones

[Agora Publication] Lupu (2003): Sacrifice at the Amphiareion and a Fragmentary Sacred Law from Oropos

Lupu, Eran ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 72.3 3 321-340 10.2307_3182024 ... 2003 ... Sacrifice at the Amphiareion and a Fragmentary Sacred Law from Oropos

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[Agora Image] 1997.16.0227 (80-90)

Frescoes of the northeast corner before repairing. Angel of Trinity and sacrifice of Isaac in Prothesis ... Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Mar 1956 ... Angel of Trinity and sacrifice of Isaac in Prothesis.

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[Agora Image] 2012.55.0178 (80-90)

Frescoes of the northeast corner before repairing. Angel of Trinity and sacrifice of Isaac in Prothesis ... AMS ... 22 Mar 1956 ... Angel of Trinity and sacrifice of Isaac in Prothesis.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 416

Wall fragment from just below rim. Reserved band on inside. Max. dim. 0.081. Man or youth (left arm and hand, a bit of drapery) to right, seizing a bull (most of head) by the horn. Above, about half of ... Late 5th century B.C ... Perhaps the sacrifice of a bull following a victory. Cf. 118, the slightly earlier stamnoid that depicts such a sacrifice following a victory in a torch race.

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[Agora Object] I 7635: Altar of Artemis with Inscription

Chipped on sides and at molding on top. Rectangular altar, square in section. Molding at top and bottom. Top flat. Relief on three faces: 1) scene of sacrifice with a bull, large square hole in center ... Relief on three faces: 1) scene of sacrifice with a bull, large square hole in center (re-use?), 2) sacrifice of a goat, 3) scene with Pan, Dionysos and Satyr.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 625

Mended with missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably all of the mouth, neck and handle, much of lower body, nearly all of ring base. Thin glaze on inside. Glaze pitted and flaked in many ... Ca. 450-440 B.C ... Durand, Sacrifice et labour en Grèce ancienne: Essai d' anthropologie religieuse, Paris/Rome 1986, p. 117, fig. 37; Straten, Hierà Kalá , p. 233, cat. no. ... Scene of Sacrifice. A nude youth (right forearm and hand, most of legs missing) walks to right, holding a kanoun on his outstretched left forearm.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1792

Deeply outcurved rim, slender uptilted handles, disc foot with spreading outer profile. Inscribed on inside, underside and exterior. The graffiti on this and other lekanai from the same deposit, here 1794, ... Context ca. 470-460 B.C ... A faithful representation of just such a lekane appears in the sacrifice scene on the cup in Oxford 1911. 617: ARV 559, 152, late work of the Pan painter.

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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 28 (2022): Dogs in the Athenian Agora

Whiting, Colin M ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... In this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... 2022 ... Topics range from how ancient Greeks hunted with dogs and what they considered a proper dog’s name to the excavation of tender burials in the Agora and the sacrifice of dogs to the gods of the underworld.

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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 28.gr (2022): Σκύλοι στην Αγορά της Αθήνας

Whiting, Colin M ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... In this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... 2022 ... Topics range from how ancient Greeks hunted with dogs and what they considered a proper dog’s name to the excavation of tender burials in the Agora and the sacrifice of dogs to the gods of the underworld.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 118

Two non-joining fragments. Fragment a comes from the lower part of the vase; fragment b is a shoulder fragment. Glaze on b is slightly abraded; streaky and pitted on inside. P.H. a) 0.175; max. dim. b) ... Ca. 420 B.C ... V 60. Sacrifice of a bull in celebration of a victory in a torch race, the figures continuing around the vase without interruption. ... For the subject, see Corbett, Hesperia 18, 1949, pp. 346--351, who quite plausibly suggests that the torch race depicted on 118 may be the one that took place at the Panathenaia. The sacrifice of a bull at the end of a torch race is not known from many examples, and Corbett has dealt with most of them(pp. 346--351). ... (p. 355, no. 27: Nike leading a bull to sacrifice) and a small oinochoe, St.

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[Agora Object] I 7154: Dedicatory Monument Fragments

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. (?) ... Ten figures watching or participating in a sacrifice in a cave. ... Also smaller scale than surrounding figures; draped female, seated left, watching sacrifice (Nymph); standing draped female, facing left, her left arm rests on hip, her right is held forward, resting on an outcrop of rock (Nymph).

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 23, s. 377, p. 361

Human foreparts. Hunter. Iolaos. Iris. Pantheress. Funeral Games for Patroklos. Javelin thrower. Judge. Pegasos. Judgment of Paris. Jumper. Funeral Games for Pelias. Peleus: seizing Thetis. Kerberos. Chorus ... Agora 23 361 ... Sacrifice

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 366

Wall fragment with start of rim, mended and strengthened with plaster. On the far right, start of handle. Reserved line on inside at top. Glaze misfired reddish and greenish in places. P.H. 0.22; max ... Ca. 430-420 B.C ... P.H. 0.22; max. dim. 0.256. Sacrifice. At the far left, hand of someone holding something, probably an aulos, then Dionysos (top of head missing) standing to right, wearing a himation, a wreath around his head, and holding his kantharos in his lowered right hand, his left raised slightly, acknowledging the youth standing frontally, wreathed head turned toward the god.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 26, s. 54, p. 28

G. Schwarz, Triptolemos: Ikonographie einer Agrar-und Mysteriengottheit, Graz 1987. K. Clinton, Sacrifice at the Eleusinian Mysteries, in Early Greek Cult Practice, R. Hägg, N. Marinatos, and G.C. Nordquist, ... Agora 26 28 ... Clinton, Sacrifice at the Eleusinian Mysteries, in Early Greek Cult Practice, R.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 30, s. 251, p. 232

ARV² 495. Agora 27, p. 176, cat. no. 78, pl. 39. Paralip. 380. Addenda 250. Pit. H.A. Thompson, Hesperia 19, 1950, pl. 107. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 94, cat. no. 248, fig. 388:h. H.A. Thompson, Fasti ... Agora 30 232 P 21295 P 20076 P 14977 P 11810 P 5495 P 18290 P 25821 N 22:1 E 13:1 B 19:12 A 20:7 ... 470-460 B.C ... Durand, Sacrifice et labour en Grèce ancienne: Essai d'anthropologie religieuse, Paris/Rome 1986, p. 117, fig. 37

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Athenian Army

http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_athenian_army.html

The Athenian Army From the very beginning, the Athenians were compelled to fight for their new democracy. Their dramatic victories over the Boiotians and Chalkidians in 506 B.C. led many to attribute Athenian ... The 4th-century B.C. historian Xenophon describes the duties of a cavalry commander: First, he must sacrifice to propitiate the gods on behalf of the cavalry; second, he must make the processions during the festivals worth seeing; further, he must conduct all the other obligatory displays before the people with as much splendor as possible (The Cavalry Commander 3.11 translated by E.C.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 31, s. 13, p. xiii

Clinton, K. 1996. The Thesmoforion in Central Athens and the Celebration of the Thesmoforia in Attica in The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium ... Agora 31 xiii ... The Violence of Well-Born Ladies: Women in Thesmoforia, in The Cuisine of Sacrifice ampng the Greeks, M.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 31, s. 12, p. xii

Bookidis, N., 1990. Ritual Dining in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth: Some Questions, in Sympotica, O. Murray, ed., Oxford, pp. 86-94. Bookidis, N., 1990. Ritual Dining at Corinth, in Greek ... Agora 31 xii ... Clinton, K. 1988. Sacrifice in the Eleusinian Mysteries in Early Greek Cult Practise: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 26-29 June 1986, R.