[Agora Image] 2012.84.0374 (98-15-23)

Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building ... AMS Cf. 98-15-24 different orientation Horizontal (normal) ... 1998 ... Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building.

[Agora Image] 2012.84.0378 (98-15-27)

Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building ... AMS Cf. 98-15-28 Horizontal (normal) ... 1998 ... Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building.

[Agora Image] 2016.01.0029

ΒΘ West. Deposit of coarse ware pottery ... In end of season preliminary report 2016, fig. 3. More report material can be found in Photography /Unworked / Projects / Excavation 2016 /Preliminary Report 2016. Horizontal (normal) ... July 2016 ... ΒΘ West. Deposit of coarse ware pottery.

[Agora Image] 2012.84.0384 (98-15-33)

Pottery deposit, east of Classical Building ... AMS Cf. 98-15-32 Horizontal (normal) ... 1998 ... Pottery deposit, east of Classical Building.

[Agora Deposit] G 12:19: Remains of a Sacrificial Pyre

Burned Deposit. A thick deposit of ash, cinders and pottery fragments extending alongside wall of cemetery. Character of pottery like the pyre of F 12:2 ... Late Geometric ... Burned Deposit. A thick deposit of ash, cinders and pottery fragments extending alongside wall of cemetery. Character of pottery like the pyre of F 12:2.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

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

Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant. ... The procedure of ostracism was simple. ... More than 4,000 ostraka bearing Megakles' name were found in one deposit in the Kerameikos (the potters' quarter of Athens) and have been associated with the ostracism of 486 B.C., although the rude comments that accompany his name on some of these ostraka concentrate on his morals rather than on his tyrannical tendencies.

[Agora Image] 2012.84.0375 (98-15-24)

Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building, view from east ... AMS west 8352 Horizontal (normal) ... 15 Jun 1998 ... Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building, view from east.

[Agora Lot] Α 59: Pottery Deposit

Late red figure; good black glazed ... 1st Half of 4th B.C.