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[Agora Publication] Portrait Sculpture

Harrison, E. B ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Presented in catalogue form are 64 portrait heads, headless torsos, and fragments (of both categories) ranging in date from the first half of the 1st century B.C. to the 5th century A.D. The catalogue ... 1953

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[Agora Publication] Coins from the Roman through the Venetian Period

Thompson, M ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Of the 55,492 coins that were recovered from the Athenian Agora during excavations from 1931 to 1949, this catalogue presents 37,000. These range in date from the last century of the Roman Republic to ... 1954

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[Agora Publication] Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia

Wycherley, R. E ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Here are presented all the ancient written references, both literary and epigraphical, to the Agora (including its environs) and its monuments. The introduction summarizes chronologically the authors cited, ... 1957

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[Agora Publication] Greek Lamps and Their Survivals

Howland, R. H ... 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 ... 1958

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[Agora Publication] Pottery of the Roman Period: Chronology

Robinson, H. S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... A group of closed deposits, ranging in date from the 1st century B.C. to the early 7th century A.D., provide evidence for the relative and absolute chronology of pottery used during many centuries of Roman ... 1959

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[Agora Publication] Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period

Grandjouan, C ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The volume contains a short introduction, a classification by types, a critical catalogue, a register of the dated contexts, concordances and indexes, and an excursus by T. B. L. Webster on the theatrical ... 1961

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[Agora Publication] Lamps of the Roman Period: First to Seventh Century after Christ

Perlzweig, J ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Nearly 3,000 specimens of lamps of “Roman” character are catalogued in this volume that covers the period from the 1st century B.C. to the 8th century A.D. The lamps are not easy to classify because the ... 1961

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[Agora Publication] Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery: Mid 8th to Late 7th Century B.C.

Brann, E. T. H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This volume reports on Athenian pottery found in the Athenian Agora up to 1960 that can dated from about the middle of the 8th century, when “the appearance of a painter of sufficient personal distinction ... 1962

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[Agora Publication] The Islamic Coins

Miles, G. C ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... All but 9 of the 6,449 Islamic coins found at Athenian Agora up to the date when this book was written belong to the Ottoman period. The earliest datable Ottoman coin is from the reign of Mehmed I (1413-21) ... 1962

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[Agora Publication] Weights, Measures and Tokens

Lang, M. Crosby, M ... 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 ... 1964

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[Agora Publication] Archaic and Archaistic Sculpture

Harrison, E. B ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Over 170 catalogued pieces of sculpture from the Athenian Agora are divided into four sections: the genuinely Archaic in date and form, the “archaistic” imitating Archaic originals (late 5th century to ... 1965

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[Agora Publication] Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.

Sparkes, B. A. Tallcott, L ... 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 ... 1970

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[Agora Publication] The Neolithic and Bronze Ages

Immerwahr, S. A ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The finds in the Athenian Agora from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages have added important chronological context to the earliest eras of Athenian history. The bulk of the items are pottery, but stone, bone, ... 1971

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[Agora Publication] The Agora of Athens: The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center

Thompson, H. A. Wycherley, R. E ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The subtitle, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center, suggests the general character of this volume, which provides an overview of the area that served as the civic center of Athens from ... 1972

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[Agora Publication] Inscriptions: The Athenian Councillors

Meritt, B. D. Traill, J ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This book presents 494 dedications made by, and honoring, members of the Athenian administrative assembly (prytaneis) between 408/7 B.C. and A.D. 231/2. The inscriptions are important because they enable ... 1974

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[Agora Publication] Inscriptions: The Decrees

Woodhead, A. G ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Edited texts, with extensive commentary, of some 344 fragments of Attic decrees dating from the mid-5th century B.C. to A.D. 203, found in excavations of the Athenian Agora before 1967, with brief notes ... 1997

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[Agora Publication] Inscriptions: The Funerary Monuments

Bradeen, D. W ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This volume presents the funerary inscriptions found in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1968. In addition, all Agora fragments of the public casualty lists known in 1971 have been included, together ... 1974

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[Agora Publication] Inscriptions: The Dedicatory Monuments

Geagan, D ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This is the last of five volumes presenting inscriptions discovered in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967. Published here are inscriptions on monuments commemorating events or victories, on statues ... 2009

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[Agora Publication] Inscriptions: Horoi, Poletai Records, Leases of Public Lands

Lalonde, G.V. Langdon, M. K. Walbank, M. B ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The three types of inscription from the Athenian Agora presented in this volume are all concerned with important civic matters. Part I, by Gerald V. Lalonde, includes all the horoi found in the excavations; ... 1991

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[Agora Publication] The Church of the Holy Apostles

Frantz, M. A ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The Church of the Holy Apostles stands at an important crossroads in the southeast corner of the area of the ancient Agora. The earliest church on the site, built over a wall of the 5th-century B.C. Mint ... 1971

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[Agora Publication] Graffiti and Dipinti

Lang, M ... 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 ... 1976

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[Agora Publication] Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Moldmade Bowls

Rotroff, S ... 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 ... 1982

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[Agora Publication] Attic Black-Figured Pottery

Moore, M. B. Philippides, M. Z. P ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This volume is the first of the Athenian Agora reports to deal specifically with figured wares; it is concerned with the black-figured pottery found in the excavations in the Athenian Agora between 1931 ... 1986

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[Agora Publication] Late Antiquity: A.D. 267-700

Frantz, M. A ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This book collects for the first time the archaeological and historical evidence for the area of the Athenian Agora in late antiquity, a period which spans the last flourishing of the great philosophical ... 1988

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[Agora Publication] Ostraka

Lang, L ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The scraps of pottery on which were written the names of candidates for ostracism are one of the most intriguing pieces of evidence for ancient democracy found in the Athenian Agora. This book is a complete ... 1990

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[Agora Publication] The Greek Coins

Kroll, J. H. Walker, A. S ... 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 ... 1993

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[Agora Publication] The East Side of the Agora: The Remains beneath the Stoa of Attalos

Townsend, R. F ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The Stoa of Attalos now covers the remains several centuries of previous occupation. Mycenaean and Protogeometric burials represent the early use of the area. By the Late Geometric period, the presence ... 1995

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[Agora Publication] The Lawcourts at Athens Sites: Buildings, Equipment, Procedure, and Testimonia

Boegehold, A. L. Camp, J. Crosby, M. Lang, M. Jordan, D. R. Townsend, R. F ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... A comprehensive, three-part study of the sites and procedures of Athenian lawcourts in the 5th, 4th, and 3rd centuries B.C. Part I discusses various courts, their names and possible sites, and reconstructs ... 1995

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[Agora Publication] Hellenistic Pottery Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material

Rotroff, S ... 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 ... 1997

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[Agora Publication] Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery

Moore, M. B ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This volume presents the inventoried red-figure and white-ground pottery found in the Agora Excavations between 1931 and 1967. Although many of these vases have already been published in various reports ... 1997

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[Agora Publication] The City Eleusinion

Miles, M ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... An archaeological study of the City Eleusinion in Athens, the sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter and the city terminus for the annual Eleusinian Mysteries. The book presents the stratigraphical evidence from ... 1998

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[Agora Publication] Roman Pottery: Fine-Ware Imports

Hayes, J ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery generally termed terra sigillata found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. These fine wares, like the other table ... 2008

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[Agora Publication] Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares

Rotroff, S ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This manuscript represents the third and final volume in the publication of the Hellenistic pottery unearthed by the American excavations in the Athenian Agora. The first installment (Agora XXII) was devoted ... 2008

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[Agora Publication] Vessel Glass

Weinberg, G. Stern, M. E ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Greek and Roman glass from vessels of all sizes and shapes is discussed in this volume which presents 402 fragments of glass vessels excavated in the Athenian Agora. Only 36 pieces date to the Classical ... 2008

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[Agora Publication] Pots and Pans of Classical Athens

Sparkes, B. Talcott, L ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how different vessel forms were used in Classical Athens ... 1951

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[Agora Publication] The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens

Thompson, H. A. T ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Named after its donor, the King of Pergamon, the Stoa of Attalos was originally built around 150 B.C. Between 1953 and 1956 this long, columned, marble building was rebuilt by the American School of Classical ... 1992

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[Agora Publication] Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora

Thompson, D. B ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Small sculptured figures of humans and animals have been found all over the Agora, ranging in date from the earliest occupation of Athens to the end of the Late Roman period. This booklet presents a representative ... 1959

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[Agora Publication] The Athenian Citizen Democracy in the Athenian Agora

Lang, M ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The artifacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since ... 1960 2004

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[Agora Publication] Ancient Portraits from the Athenian Agora

Harrison, E. B ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... 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. While a few of these are named, most of the portraits ... 1960

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[Agora Publication] Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade

Grace, V. R ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Although this booklet is based on broken pottery found during the excavation of the Agora, the author ranges far beyond the confines of Athens in her discussion of the purpose and significance of different ... 1961