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Complete, but with shaft short and apparently resharpened.
Pomegranate head. The top of the shaft lightly collared and banded with incised lines. The head has an elaborately carved finial; the round knob ... 30 March 1948 |
One end pointed, the other flattened for erasing. Early red fill east of road. Leica, Various vii-79 ... 28 March 1935 |
Intact.
A hook at one end.
Modern (?) S.W. corner of section: Turkish fill. Leica, Various vii-84 ... 2 March 1939 |
Intact.
Numbers arranged as usual: one opposite six; two opposite five; three opposite four.
Bone greenish in color, as are other pieces of bone from this fill. Late Roman fill. Leica, Various vii-87 ... 4 June 1936 |
Intact except for chips. Squat lekythos with flaring bell mouth. Many-petalled palmette coarsely reserved on the front.
Highly metallic black glaze, carelessly applied on and above the foot. Bottom unglazed ... 18 January 1940 |
Lentoid.
Pierced with two holes near edge. Stamp centerd beneath perforations. In oval stamp, male head to right. Disturbed layer. Leica, Various vii-94 ... 2 June 1932 |
Tip broken off; badly oxidized and could not be cleaned (disintegrated in the effort); otherwise intact.
Plain straight shaft with two grooves just below the head.
Large pointed knob-like head, ornamented ... 1 February 1938 |
The ring a flat band.
From the ring, projecting like a bezel, is a short rectangular bar to which is attached at right angles a key made of ten projections, round in section. Late Roman fill with Byzantine ... 29 April 1938 |
Large arrowhead or spearhead.
Two-barbed, and with a stem to fit into the shaft. Modern fill. Leica, Various vii-92 ... 21 May 1935 |
Leaf-shaped spearhead with ridge down middle of blade.
Socket for shaft at base, chipped. Late mixed fill. Leica, Various vii-92 ... 19 March 1935 |
Short handle, tapering to a point. Cup-like end. Black fill west of Polygonal building. Leica, Various vii-87 ... 1 April 1935 |
Intact.
Flattened at upper end; single(?) barb at other. ca. 2.30m. below surface Below surface, in consistent Late Roman fill with coins. Leica, Various vii-83 ... 8 April 1936 |
Round disk, flat on both sides, and with a hole near the edge. Unglazed.
Micaceous pink clay. Well G. Leica, Various vii-94 ... 28 May 1936 |
Conical.
Slightly hollowed at the bottom and pierced for suspension at the top. Late drain fill. Leica, Various vii-94 ... 18 February 1935 |
Intact. Votive.
Pale buff clay, unglazed. East end of Middle Stoa terrace, disturbed area. 1538 Leica, VII-88 ... 20 May 1964 |
Top, bottom, one face and parts of two others preserved.
Finished with heavy mouldings top and bottom; in the top surface, a small circular depression.
Coarse pink clay with buff slip. Built into wall ... 10 June 1935 |
Edges and corners smoothed down to curves.
Standard disk markings, made by deep drillings, probably once filled with some contrasting color. Area south of east-west Roman wall, layer II, above 4th c. B.C ... 13 March 1952 |
Bezel intact except for some chips. Two thirds of ring band missing.
Bezel shows profile bust of female, left, in relief.
Hair falling in three strands gathered above nape with double band. Heavy features ... 4 July 1968 |
| A short-necked bottle shaped like an unguentarium.
Thin fabric; purple glass. Cemetery at corner of Piraeus and Herakleidou Streets, grave F. 66 Leica ... April 1937 |
Broken at upper end. Byzantine Street, upper fill. Leica, Various vii-83 ... 27 April 1937 |
Mended from two fragments, the point lacking.
The head is shaped like a Corinthian capital, with leaves under the corners, and a square abacus. On the abacus is seated a winged Eros, with legs crossed ... 21 March 1934 |
Flat at the back, slightly convex on top.
Decorated on the edge with incised triangles.
Probably Byzantine. House B, upper layer, probably floor.
Late Roman (?) 183 Leica, Various vii-84 ... 23 March 1934 |
Tapering handle; thin round blade, slightly upturned.
Dark brown. Well, dump. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 14 June 1932 |
Small-bowled spoon with flat handle, cut at the top into a leaf shape, and pierced, just below this, with a small hole. Red Roman fill over interior north wall of Burnt Building. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 19 June 1935 |
Plain pin, tapering toward both ends, and fitted with a round head of black glass or stone. Stoa colonnade, opposite room 3, in plundered wall trench, layer 2. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 29 May 1939 |
Not quite cubical, and fairly large.
The pips of the numbers are made of an incised ring around a dot. Well D, earth. Leica, Various vii-87 ... 17 June 1937 |
Double incised rings around dots.
Similar to BI 419, but smaller. Well D, earth. Leica, Various vii-87 ... 17 June 1937 |
Oval bowl with central rib. Shaft ending above in a drop.
Rather well preserved.
Decorative rings around the part where bowl and shaft meet.
Cf. Corinth XII, pp. 132-134, pl. 82. In front of late Roman ... 8 May 1947 |
Intact.
Heptagonal.
Seven-sided cone shape tapering up from flat bottom. Sides bevelled in at bottom to base. Hole cut through at point 0.012 from apex.
Red glazed except for base. Pocket of thrown bedrock, ... 14 August 1967 |
Double conical.
Pierced through the center. Decorated on the upper side with three seven pointed stars, incised, probably, when the clay was soft. Unglazed.
Pinkish buff clay. Drain. Leica, Various vii-84 ... 5 May 1934 |
| Much corroded. Traces of the wooden handle remain in the hole.
At one end a flat square face, at the other a single point. Round hole. Inside the S.E. corner of the Porch of the Metroon, among the working ... 13 April 1938 |
Hoop made of spirally twisted wire enlarged at one end to hold socket for (missing) stone.
Socket bordered by loops of wire. Note that the wire of the hoop is smooth toward the small end, beaded toward ... 18 June 1965 |
Broken into two pieces; fragment of bowl missing. A roughly cylindrical object with a small bowl at the top. The walls of the bowl flare slightly to a plain thickened lip. The present lower edge of the ... June 1938 |
Triangular, triple-barbed arrowhead, with socket for the shaft, and a small hole in the side of the socket.
The barbs broken at the tips. Cistern A. Leica, Various vii-92 ... 24 May 1935 |
Large heavy moulded head, with fine grooves around shaft just below. Well, earth. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 9 June 1936 |
Plain band with rectangular key attachment. Building P, room 7, where north floor II lacks to West. 1378 Leica, Various vii-83 ... 26 April 1948 |
Broken in the middle.
Long slender channel, pointed in one end. The other end bent like a hook. Ends up in a bird' s head.
On the handle a knob bounded to either side by ridges. Stoa shop IX from south, ... 12 June 1952 |
Two non-joining fragments from edge of slab.
Front smoothly finished and incised in squares. Back smooth with three small holes along edge for attachment on fragment a) and three along the break on fragment ... 8 April 1949 |
Chip missing from top and side. Glaze worn at edges.
Conical convex type. Well. Leica, Various vii-84 ... March 1937 |
A tiny lion 's head, from an earring.
There is a wire strung through the lion 's head for hanging, bent back for whiskers. Middle Stoa, area north 3, against tie-wall in footing trench by pier 2.
Middle ... 19 March 1953 |
One (longitudinal) half remains, the (proper) left.
Crouching pose, front legs only are indicated.
Hair is gouged, the muzzle, collar and a stripe down the front are painted red. Traces of white paint ... 22 June 1939 |
Complete.
A small plump bird with spreading tail, rather long thick neck, stumpy legs and a comb. An extra "leg" under the tail helps him to stand.
Handmade.
Red clay. Sacrificial Pit X, red fill under ... 12 June 1939 |
| Globular, with small flattened top, and larger flattened bottom.
Decorated with a band of double concentric circles incised around a central dot; above and below this band, three incised grooves.
Brown ... 13 May 1933 |
Complete.
Round shallow bowl. Pointed handle with transverse grooves just above the bowl. Well. Black fill. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 26 February 1934 |
Pointed tack with four-faced shaft and hollow rounded head like a mushroom. Hellenistic fill to west of terracotta drains. Leica, Various vii-83 ... 2 April 1934 |
A heavy spike, rectangular in section, with a round head. Compact brown earth : destruction fill of Fountain House. Leica, Various vii-83 ... 9 May 1935 |
Long tapering shaft; small head with edge slightly overhanging. Burnt layer. Leica ... 6 May 1933 |
Short shaft tapering to a point.
Pointed knob head and grooves around the shaft just below the head. Well, earth. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 12 June 1937 |
Chipped.
Pyramidal.
Four-sided with flat top and bottom. Pierced by hole 0.013 m. from top. Dull black glaze on upper two thirds.
Pinkish buff clay. Beneath Byzantine floor west of Hieron, S.W. of S.W ... 6 July 1967 |
Long narrow, square in section.
Thicker at center than at either end. Flat on bottom, round on top, pierced near top.
No glaze.
Fine buff slightly micaceous clay; surface polished. Cistern, lower red fill ... 6 May 1939 |
Inscribed.
Battered at one end. On one side, thunderbolt; on the other : Δ Ε Ξ Α Ι
Well. Leica, Various vii-92 ... 31 March 1937 |
| Perspective view of the Agora, including the Roman Market (from the northwest) ... J. Travlos ... PD 1234 Horizontal (normal) ... 1963 |
One has a large epsilon (E) scratched on side.
Another is pierced from side to side. Well. Leica, Various vii-87 ... 22 May 1957 |
Made of a thin wire, round in section, but flattened to form the catch, which has broken away in part. Otherwise complete. Well, near bottom.
5th c. B.C. 425-400 B.C.
Cf. P 2072. Leica, Various vii-87 ... 27 May 1933 |
Both ends broken off.
Long straight shaft with moulded rings around it. Lines of inlaid silver in horizontal and diagonal patterns all along the shaft.
Tapers towards both ends. Well. Upper fill. Leica, ... 7 April 1936 |
Handmade, conical, stamped.
Oval stamp; standing draped figure with shield and spear: Athena Promachos (?). Unglazed.
Fine pale buff clay. Well I. Leica, Various vii-94 ... 28 May 1936 |
| Conical, stamped.
Loom weight stamp on upper wall, the inscription: Γ Λ Υ Κ on lower wall.
Buff clay.
Finished North end of terrace of Stoa of Attalos; from a disturbed area but probably from footing ... 10 August 1953 |
Intact.
Pyramidal, with graffito.
Plain at bottom with four flat sides tapering to slightly rounded top. Longer sides pierced with hole at top.
Marked with an incised letter X on one side.
Orange buff ... 1 July 1967 |
| Bracelet set with red stone.
Intact though slightly bent.
A plain band of solid gold with a single small oval red stone set in it. Χρυσό ψέλιο με κορνηλίνη. Rectangular feeder drain which enters the Great ... 3 December 1948 |
| Partially restored in plaster.
Above base, rays. On body: front, two draped youths walking right; under each handle a siren with spread wings; at back, a goose. Around bottom of neck, rosettes; above, ... 14 May 1936 |
Small flat-bottomed bowl with straight outward tilted side wall and plain rim. No handles.
Pinkish-buff clay, unglazed.
Cf. Agora XII, no. 1420. Well. Leica, VII-88 ... card: 425-400 B.C. |
| Mouth broken off. Foot preserved.
Two figures in relief. A seated woman shakes hands with a standing man.
White marble. Catalogued September 1967. From sepulchral marbles in garden west of Hephaisteion ... |
Intact except for chips. Convex lid with thick central knob; depression in top of knob, a groove around. Two grooves around lid below knob; then five triangular holes. Narrow flat rim grooved on top and ... 14 June 1939 |
| Mended from several pieces. Restored in plaster. Missing are base of handle and pieces of rim. Low moulded ring foot with upturned toe - that is, the resting surface of the pot is on interior of foot ... 30 June 1970 |
| Tip of pin missing.
The head is composed of a Corinthian capital, on which kneels a nude female figure, her right knee on the ground; her left elbow resting on her bent left knee.
Both hands are raised ... 9 June 1936 |
Pointed at one end.
Flat paddle at the other, with ornamental grooves between. Well, basket 9. Leica, XXXIX-51, Various vii-79 ... 25 May 1937 |
One half of the shaft roughly rounded, pointed at the end; the other rectangular, and flattened at the end. Well, from the earth. Leica, XXXIX-51, Various vii-79, Various i-65 ... 13 June 1937 |
Point of pin broken off.
Bow has longitudinal ridge with cross-hatching in relief. Well in street of Roman Agora, 2nd meter.
Early Roman : 1st c. A.D. Leica, Various vii-87 ... 6 August 1946 |
| Restored plan of the Agora in the 2nd c. A.D ... John Travlos ... PD 1197 ... 1970 |
| Right half of boar on stand, left half broken away. Chips missing from back of stand, from top of snout, and bristles on back.
A garland around his middle; a hole pierced through his snout.
Traces of ... 23 May 1953 |
| Small complete spoon.
Oval bowl, very shallow. Stem rectangular in section and flattened at the end, where it is pierced horizontally. Grave 17 (?). Polyethylene ziplock bag sealed
handling with gloves ... 22 May 1939 |
Complete except for chip from head.
Large-headed hook (if right angle in shaft is original); otherwise a nail.
Head flat. Shaft rectangular in section, tapering to a point, now bent. N.W. room, Poros Building, ... 7 June 1949 |
Mended from two pieces; the base and a large part of the sides missing. Neck and shoulder reserved; on the latter, dots and rays, the latter alternating black and white. Just below the shoulder, two narrow ... August-September 1932 |
| Inscribed columnar grave monument.
Small fragments missing from top.
Below inscription, a loutrophoros in relief in a sunken panel.
Hymettian marble. Catalogued September 1967. Found in sepulchral marbles, ... |
Intact. A handmade open, handleless cup, sides slightly pinched in at two points. Bottom flat. Roughly decorated inside and out with crosses, strokes and dots in dull reddish-brown paint.
Light brown ... 20 July 1932 |
| Intact save for chip from rim. Round bottom, plump body, out-turned lip, strap handle from point of greatest diameter to lip.
Fine polished pinkish-buff clay; no glaze. Cooking pot shape, but fine fabric ... 11 April 1949 |
Thin dark glaze on lip. Grave 11. Leica, 6-176, VII-97 ... 27 March 1936 |
Chipped; a hole near middle. Plump shape with flaring rim and rounded handle.
Reddish clay. Unglazed.
Found full of carbonized matter. Sacrificial Pyre no. 1; Central House, room XI, strosis 3. 1501 Leica, ... 5 May 1958 |
| Complete except for chip from foot. Deep-bodied kernos with flaring rim. Short stem, flaring foot flat beneath. Single piercing at each handle. Traces of white. Cistern. Leica, 8-169, VII-90, 87-259 ... April 1938 |
Broken away along one side at the front.
Cubical block, with one side hollowed into a concave face marked with eleven (?) radiating incised liines; at center above, lead bedding for the pointer.
Pentelic ... 22 May 1936 |
| Small hole rotted through, and some partial cracks, on weathered half.
Where surface well preserved, veining of stone displayed in fine horizontal wavy lines. Under the small lug on either side a sort ... February 1936 |
Nail with broad flat head. South Terrace, cut IV, north, layer 1, behind South Stoa wall, South Stoa II, building fill. Leica, VII-83 ... 17 April 1953 |
| Pendent type earring.
Ear attachment with heart-shaped red glass inset.
Lower part has six separate strands, hanging from a green glass bead, set in two calyx-shaped holders. Strands end with alternating ... 21 November 1953 |
General type as P 24316 (ΣΑ 2526): This is the characteristic general type for the large proportion of the lekythoi from this group. Bell mouth with variations in height and spread; lip usually reserved, ... May-June 1954 |
The iron clapper missing save few rust marks.
The ring at top worn thin from much use. below ca. 61.50m. Destruction debris north of east bay.
Late Roman fill, perhaps disturbed. Leica, Various vii-83 ... 10 June 1935 |
Triangular leaf shaped head.
At the back, hole for shaft, beside which is preserved a barb. Floor of south room of S.W. building.
Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. Leica, Various vii-92 1967 ... 12 March 1934 |
| Concave conical top; rounded bottom.
Decorated with black glaze in stripes and rows of short vertical strokes.
ADDENDA Publication: early 5th c. B.C. (publication) Grave 7, find no. 18 for the day.
Found ... Publication: early 5th c. B.C. |
Lip chipped. 0.75m. below top of stele. Probably from Grave 2 (1.10m. north of west end of stele, 0.10m or 0.15m. from scarp of Grave 7, depth of 0.75m. below top of stele). Leica, 6-176, LXIII-58, VII-97 ... 23 March 1936 |
Chous. Intact, except chip from mouth. Band handle; flat bottom. Blobs on shoulder, glazed band around the neck. Inside of lip, top of handle, lower part of body and underside of foot glazed.
Buff clay; ... 21 April 1953 |
| Crouching cat with tail stretched out behind.
Ears, left front paw and lower part of face missing.
Traces of white.
Handmade.
ADDENDA Animal toys for babies. Cf. T 2303, T 2304, T 2305, T 2306. Layer ... 23 July 1946 |
Inscribed.
Battered.
On one side a winged thunderbolt in relief; on the other, inscription in relief :
Δ Ε Ξ Α Ι
Klepsydra, antechamber; lower loose fill over strosis. Leica, XXV-80, Various vii-92 ... 7 June 1938 |
Much smaller than the preceding examples (IL 678- IL 682), and more pointed at the ends.
Possible traces of relief. Klepsydra, antechamber; lower loose fill over strosis.Klepsydra, antechamber; lower loose ... 7 June 1938 |
| Ring with engraved gem.
Made of hammered gold, round in section, thin on the inside and thick on the outside.
Into the thick outer part a small carnelian is set, engraved intaglio with a standing figure ... 25 April 1940 |
Mended from five pieces. Small roughly made saucer, the bottom left rough from the wheel.
Light brownish-buff clay. Finished Pyre. 6654, 6659, 7066 Leica, VII-93 ... 16 March 1948 |
Mended from four pieces. Chip missing from floor. Similar to P 19063 (ΝΝ 4172) ff. Burned gray.
ADDENDA P 19063: Small roughly made saucer, the bottom left rough from the wheel. Light brownish-buff clay ... 16 March 1948 |
Intact. Miniature kantharos, roughly made on the wheel. Band handles, rising from rim.
Unglazed. Cistern. Leica, XXXIV-81, 82-516, VII-88 ... April 1938 |
Chips missing.
A small kothon-like vase on a high flaring foot. Linked buds on shoulder; reserved band on underside of body. Well 6, container 3, upper fill. Leica, 82-472, VII-89 ... 26 May 1938 |
| Fragments missing from both upper and lower parts, and small pieces do not join.
Lower half consists of hemispherical bowl with inset flange to receive.
Upper half which has a central spout rising from ... 5 May 1949 |
| The Agora in the 2nd century A.D. (revised from PD 750) ... J. Travlos W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... PD 1197 Horizontal (normal) ... 1962-1982 |
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