[Agora Image] 2017.18.0507

During removal of fill in eastern portion of West Section, work stopped for end of season ... Nicholas Seetin ... East Horizontal (normal) ... 3 Aug 2017 ... During removal of fill in eastern portion of West Section, work stopped for end of season.

[Agora Image] 2017.18.0508

During removal of fill in eastern portion of West Section, work stopped for end of season ... Nicholas Seetin ... East Horizontal (normal) ... 3 Aug 2017 ... During removal of fill in eastern portion of West Section, work stopped for end of season.

[Agora Lot] Η 60: From Section Η to ΛΣΤ in Section Ε and Z to ΙΗ from 59.00 (-3.30)-59.00 (-3.40) (From Strosis at Which Work Stopped Last Year to The Next Strosis)

From Section Η to ΛΣΤ in Section Ε and Z to ΙΗ from 59.00 (-3.30)-59.00 (-3.40) (From Strosis at Which Work Stopped Last Year to The Next Strosis)

[Agora Notebook Page] Η-6-70 (pp. 1086-1087)

From Section Η to ΛΣΤ in Section Ε and Z to ΙΗ from 59.00 (-3.30)-59.00 (-3.40) (From Strosis at Which Work Stopped Last Year to The Next Strosis). Hellenistic Fill at 49/ΙΒ. Hellenistic Fill at 50/ΙΒ ... Η-6 1086, 1087 Lot Η 60 Lot Η 61 Lot Η 80 Lot Η 62 Lot Η 63 Lot Η 64 Lot Η 65 Lot Η 66 Lot Η 67 Lot Η 68 ... Late Roman and Combed Ware ... From Section Η to ΛΣΤ in Section Ε and Z to ΙΗ from 59.00 (-3.30)-59.00 (-3.40) (From Strosis at Which Work Stopped Last Year to The Next Strosis)

[Agora Object] P 5729: Red Figure Oinochoe

Oinochoe, shape III. The wide ring base, neatly profiled beneath, and colored pink, preserved. Large parts of the body missing and all of the lip save at the upper handle attachment, and most of the neck ... 19 April-5 May 1935 ... Decoration on the body in a panel bordered below by stopped maeander and saltire squares, at the sides by narrow plain lines. ... Careful work. The lower part of the pot fired red.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1474

Floor fragment with start of stem. Glaze misfired bluish in places. Max. dim. 0.083; est. outer diam. of tondo 0.11. I (illustrated), two youths (forehead, lower legs, and feet of one missing; head, ... Ca. 430-420 B.C ... Around the tondo, stopped-maeander pattern. ... But 1474 looks slightly later than the work by the painters of the Penthesilea Workshop.

[Agora Notebook Page] Η'-12-52 (pp. 2247-2248)

Stoa of Zeus. Geison Fragments to East of Apollo Patros. Geison Fragment A 148. Stoa Nike S 312 at 24/ΝΣΤ. Stoa Nike Photos. Doric Drum A 150. Various Fragments to East of Zeus and Athena Temple. Destruction ... Η'-12 2247, 2248 A 148 S 312 A 150 S 373 A 225 A 608 S 795 A 674 A 675 A 881 S 1923 ... 1936 ... Work Stopped

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1429

Bowl fragment. Max. dim. 0.082; est. diam. of tondo 0.16. I, jockey (head with long hair streaming behind him; shoulder) to right. Around tondo, stopped-maeander pattern. A, horse race. At the left, one ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Around tondo, stopped-maeander pattern. ... During his visit to the Agora in June 1988, Bothmer noted the similarity between 1429 and the work of the Stieglitz and Pistoxenos Painters.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Speakers

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

The Speakers Litigants spoke on their own behalf, although occasionally using speeches prepared by trained professionals; skillful rhetoric was necessary in order to sway a jury. The speeches written by ... Demosthenes' skills as a public speaker in the assembly were honed by training and considerable self-discipline: They say that when he was still a young man he withdrew into a cave and studied there, shaving half of his head to keep himself from going out; also that he slept on a narrow bed in order to get up quickly and that since he could not pronounce the sound of R he learned to do so by hard work, and since in declaiming for practice he made an awkward movement with his shoulder, he put an end to the habit by fastening a split or, as some say, a dagger from the ceiling to make him through fear keep his shoulder motionless. ... Testimony of witnesses and citation of legal documents did not count against one's speaking time, and there are repeated requests in the preserved speeches for the water to be stopped. Experienced orators would keep an eye on the jet of water at the outlet, and as the pressure fell they would bring their speech to an end just as the last drops ran out.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 303

Eight non-joining wall fragments, a and b with rim and strengthened with plaster. Band on inside at rim, a narrower one 0.068 below rim. Glaze fired red on inside, slightly misfired below figures on outside ... Ca. 460-450 B.C ... Below the figures, stopped-maeander pattern (a, f, g). ... Vatican 16535, an oinochoe somewhat connected with the Heimarmene Painter and with Polion but earlier than their work: Eros flies toward Menelaos, holding a garland (ARV2 1173, ---; Paralip. 460, top; Addenda 339).