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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 267, p. 257

Quails. Simon, horseman. Simonides. Records. Sitesis. Sitonai honored. Rein makers. Sitophylakes. Rhea. Skenai. Rhodians. Skenites. Rings. Skiadeia. Roman generals. Skias. Roman Market. Skiron. Rome. Skyros ... Agora 3 257 ... Statues, honorary ... Silver statues

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Introduction

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Introduction Classical Athens saw the rise of an achievement unparalleled in history. Perikles, Aeschylus, Sophokles, Plato, Demosthenes, Thucydides, and Praxiteles represent just a few of the statesmen ... Long stoas (colonnades) provided shaded walkways for those wishing to meet friends to discuss business, politics, or philosophy, while statues and commemorative monuments reminded citizens of former triumphs. ... Athenian silver tetradrachm, 5th century B.C., with the head of Athena on the obverse, and her sacred owl, an olive sprig, and the legend (ΑΘΕ) on the reverse.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 14, s. 279, p. 254

The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Romulus. The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Skyros. The Athenian Agora; ... Agora 14 254 ... The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Statues; Sites for Statues ... The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Silver ... The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Silver; Coins

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Picture Books

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Picture Books The Athenian Agora Picture Book series, started in 1951, aims to make information about life in the ancient commercial and political center of Athens available to a wide audience. Each booklet ... B.Publication Date: 1960ISBN: 0876616058Picture Book: 5 Although the famous bronze statues seen by the Roman tourist Pausanias have been melted down, the Agora preserves a number of fine portraits in stone. ... Although many of the objects these craftsmen produced have now been melted down, the statues, lamps, and vessels that remain testify to the high standards of their craftsmanship. ... Sculpture is also full of horse imagery, from monumental equestrian statues (a bronze leg and gilded sword are all that remain from one of these) to tiny terracotta figurines, perhaps a child’s toys.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 26, s. 13, p. xiii

G. Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection I-III, Glasgow 1899-1905. IG I³, Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno anteriores, 3rd ed., fasc., 1, ed. D. Lewis, Berlin 1981. IG II², ... Agora 26 xiii ... Lacroix, Les reproductions de statues sur les monnaies grecques: La statuaire archaïque et classique (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l' Université de Liège, fasc. ... Mattingly, The Beginning of the New Style Silver Coinage, NC 150, 1990, pp. 67-78

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Monographs

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Monographs Excavations in the civic and cultural center of classical Athens began in 1931 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Athenian Agora volumes presenting ... They are grouped in parts: the Stoas, Shrines, Public Buildings and Offices, Market, Honorary Statues, Miscellaneous including Boundaries, Trees, Kerameikos, Panathenaic Street, Old Agora. ... Published here are inscriptions on monuments commemorating events or victories, on statues or other representations erected to honor individuals and deities, and on votive offerings to divinities. ... Included as well are the Athenian silver and the hundreds of non-Athenian gold, silver, and bronze coins that made their way into the Agora in antiquity Considerable attention is paid to the archaeological context of the coins and to presenting a pictorial record of the Greek coinage from the Agora, with more than 1,035 coins illustrated.