"dc-creator","Icon","dc-title","Collection","Id","Chronology","dc-date","Name","dc-subject","UserLevel","dc-publisher","dc-description","Redirect","Type"
"","","Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens","Agora","Agora:Publication:Hesperia 3","","1934","Hesperia 3 (1934)","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","Hesperia","","Publication"
"Howland, R. H.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0034::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0034.jpg::104::150","Greek Lamps and Their Survivals","Agora","Agora:Publication:Agora 4","","1958","Agora IV","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of “closed deposits” at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Many photographs and profiles of sections permit ready identification, and a handy graphical chart of lamp types facilitates quick checking of the chronological range of each.","","Publication"
"Lang, M.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0040::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0040.jpg::200::267","Weights, Measures and Tokens","Agora","Agora:Publication:Agora 10","","1964","Agora X","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","The first part of this book deals with weights (14 bronze, 109-111 lead, 28 stone) and measures (75 dry, 28-31 liquid). Although humble objects, the detailed study of these everyday items provides archaeological evidence for substantial changes in weight standards at different times in Athenian history. This reinforces literary evidence for a highly centralized bureaucracy controlling trade and commerce. In the second part of the book, Crosby catalogues and discusses some 900 lead and 46 clay tokens uncovered during the Agora excavations. The bulk of the lead material dates from the Roman period, while all the clay pieces belong to the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd centuries B.C. These tokens served diverse functions. Some were used as admission tickets for festivals and theater performances while others can be related to attendance at lawcourts or receipt of tax payments.","","Publication"
"Sparkes, B. A.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0042::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0042.jpg::200::263","Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.","Agora","Agora:Publication:Agora 12","","1970","Agora XII","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","This massive (two-part) volume focuses on pottery produced between 600 and 300 B.C. with Sparkes discussing the black glaze and Talcott the domestic (household and kitchen) wares of the period. Over 2,040 pieces of black-glaze pottery are catalogued and described, with many drawings and photographs.","","Publication"
"Lang, M.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0051::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0051.jpg::296::400","Graffiti and Dipinti","Agora","Agora:Publication:Agora 21","","1976","Agora XXI","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","Over 3,000 informal inscriptions scratched or painted on pottery, lamps, or other clay fragments have been found in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In this volume, 859 of these graffiti and dipinti (representing those with sufficient content to be meaningful) are presented in catalogue and drawings. The texts consist of messages and lists, love names and curses, rough calculations, dedications, commercial and tax notations—in short, all manner of fascinating, all-too-human trivia. An introduction to each category defines the type, indicates special characteristics and suggests parallels, purpose, etc. Each example is illustrated in a line drawing with the exception of the tax notations (dipinti); in this case photographs seemed preferable owing to the fugitive medium and the run-on cursive forms. This skillful presentation of an important body of material contributes significantly to the study of informal Greek, especially in regard to letter forms and spelling, as well as to an understanding of the varying commercial practices in ancient Athens.","","Publication"
"Rotroff, S","Agora:Image:2009.09.0052::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0052.jpg::104::150","Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Moldmade Bowls","Agora","Agora:Publication:Agora 22","","1982","Agora XXII","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","This volume is the first of two to present the Hellenistic fine ware from the excavations in the Athenian Agora. Its scope is restricted to the moldmade hemispherical bowls manufactured from the late 3rd century to the early 1st century B.C. in Athens. The material studied, consisting of some 1,400 fragments of which about 800 were inventoried by the excavators, was unearthed between 1931 and 1973. Of the inventoried pieces, 364 fragments of bowls and molds are catalogued and discussed here, with 40 additional imported pieces, 6 related moldmade examples of other shapes, and 5 pieces used in the manufacturing process. The author first discusses the origins and dating of the bowls and then takes up the various types, in order of appearance on the historical scene: pine-cone, imbricate, floral, and figured bowls and their workshops and chronology, long-petal bowls, and other special types such as concentric-semicircle and daisy bowls. The discussion is followed by a detailed catalogue including references to comparanda.","","Publication"
"Kroll, J. H.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0057::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0057.jpg::370::500","The Greek Coins","Agora","Agora:Publication:Agora 26","","1993","Agora XXVI","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","This volume catalogues over 16,577 identifiable Greek coins produced by the excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens between 1931 and 1990. The majority of the coins found and catalogued are Athenian bronze, from the 4th century B.C. through the 3rd century A.D. 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. Substantial introductory discussions place all the coins in clear historical and numismatic contexts and give a sense of the range of international commercial activity in the ancient city. This comprehensive reference work is indispensable for students and scholars of Greek coinage and history. Presenting a reliable chronology of Athens’ bronze coinage for the first time, it will be the standard reference for this important coinage in particular for years to come.","","Publication"
"Rotroff, S.","Agora:Image:2009.09.0055::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0055.jpg::366::500","Hellenistic Pottery Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material","Agora","Agora:Publication:Agora 29","","1997","Agora XXIX","","","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and 1982, some 1,500 Attic and 300 imported pieces. An introductory section includes chapters devoted to fixed points in the chronology of the pottery, to a general discussion of the decoration of Hellenistic pots, both stamped and painted, or “West Slope,” and to the question of workshops. The author dedicates much of the text to a typology of Attic Hellenistic fine ware, carefully examining the origins, development, chronology, forms, and decoration of each shape. The ordering of the material by function rather than by the form of vessels provides insight into life in Hellenistic Athens. Especially important is the development of a chronological framework that builds upon and refines the author’s earlier work in this area.","","Publication"