[Agora Object] A 1899: Palmette Fragment with Mason's Mark

Broken all around, only front and back surfaces preserved. On back, mason's mark: Α. Face much weathered. From the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion. Island (?) marble. Seems to belong to same series as A ... 31 August 1951 ... Found by Homer A. Thompson in architecture store room.

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[Agora Object] A 616: Capital: Ionic

Two joining fragments. Abacus, fillets, and top of volutes recut to make base for interior support of fourth period of church. Lower part of volutes cut off. Developed fifth century type egg and dart ... 18 February 1936 ... ADDENDA Dreruf points out that this capital is identical with another now lying beside the Guard's House below the Nike Temple (Homer A. Thompson, 7 July 1937).

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[Agora Object] S 1596: Head of Male Figure: Persian

Broken at bottom, and along right side of head towards back. Top of cap, tip of nose and chip below left eye missing. Male head, about half life-size, turned left about three quarters. Shaggy mustache ... 13 March 1952 ... ADDENDA Scale ca. 20% smaller than figures of the so-called " Small Attalid Dedication" (see conjecture by Homer Thompson in Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 55).

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 389

Wall fragment. Glaze greenish on inside, rather flaked and abraded on outside on figures. Max. dim. 0.093. R. S. Young, Hesperia 20, 1951, pl. 80:4; Ages of Homer, p. 459, fig. 28.16. Uncertain subject ... Ca. 400 B.C ... Young, Hesperia 20, 1951, pl. 80:4; Ages of Homer, p. 459, fig. 28.16.

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[Agora Object] S 1604: Portrait Head of Male Figure

Nose chipped; otherwise intact except for minor chips. Portrait of middle-aged man with close-trimmed beard and mustache. Hair simply treated and cap-like except for locks falling over forehead. Eyes have ... Late 3rd c. or early 4th c. A.D ... ADDENDA Homer A. Thompson's account attached to the card: Found in a Byzantine house foundation some 5.00m. to the west of the mid part of the Odeion, together with fragments of two inscribed bases of the Roman period (I 6502, I 6503), the leg of a male figure of life-size, roughly worked (S 1605), and pottery of the 3rd c.

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[Agora Object] S 1631: Portrait Head of Female Figure

Intact save for end of nose and ancient chip from right ear and recent chips from hair and left ear. Socket for fitting into body rough-picked; carried up high in back of neck. Hair in marked waves above ... Julio-Claudian period ... ADDENDA Homer A. Thompson's account attached to the card: Found in the S.E. corner of the east stoa of the Commercial Agora, immediately north of the Church of the Holy Apostles, in a level of the second half of the 3rd c.

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[Agora Object] A 3475: Statue Plinth

Complete. Corner block from the plinth of a large monument. Finished on two adjacent sides with a cyma reversa. In top a shallow bedding, apparently for a colossal left foot. Hard gray poros. (Consider ... 2 September 1964 ... ADDENDA Comment by Homer A. Thompson, 1966.

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[Agora Object] A 3476: Statue Plinth

One corner hacked away by the house builder. From another corner of the same monument as plinth A 3475. In this case, however, the bedding for the foot extended into a second (missing) block. Socket for ... 2 September 1964 ... ADDENDA Comment by Homer A. Thompson, 1966.