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[Agora Object] S 937: Statuette Fragment: Draped Standing Female

Head, forearms, hands, and legs from knees, missing. Draped standing female figure of Venus Genetrix type, wearing a thin clinging chiton, which leaves the breasts bare. A heavy himation, which covers ... 11 May 1937 ... covers the back, is held up at

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[Agora Object] S 198: Herm with Drapery as Statue Support

Head of youth, set on a shaft; the whole framed by heavy drapery which covers the top of the head and falls down on both sides and at back. Lower part broken away. Face much worn: mouth and most of nose ... 10 March 1932 ... Head of youth, set on a shaft; the whole framed by heavy drapery which covers

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[Agora Object] S 327: Grave Relief Fragment with Seated and Standing Female Figures

Broken off at the top, at the shoulders of both figures; back and bottom rough-picked; sides fine-picked. Surface very much worn. The figure to the right, seated on a stool, faces left, her left hand resting ... 3 April 1933 ... Found in use upside down as cover for a large pithos.

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[Agora Object] S 248: Head of Female Figure

Broken off just below the chin, the features largely worn away, the back both worn and broken. Head of over life-size figure. The hair is drawn down over the forehead in broad waves, covering the ears ... 4th c. A.D ... Sculpture

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 201, p. 182

Herms; Attachment of arms. Herms; Back hair. Herms; Beardless, used as supports. Herms; Body modelled to hips. Epigram of Praxagoras. Herms; Bronze-headed. Herms with white heads and colored shafts. Herms; ... Agora 11 182 G 5:3 ... Hollowing to lighten pedimental sculpture ... Herms; Miniature

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[Agora Object] S 340: Statuette of Mother of the Gods

Hacked at the back and on the lower surface; head gone. Entire surface rather damaged. The woman, Kybele, is represented seated on a high-backed throne with her feet on a footstool. Her right arm rests ... 19 April 1933 ... himation, which covers her left

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[Agora Object] S 2070: Draped Colossal Figure Fragments

Two fragments of a colossal draped female figure. a) The lower part, wearing long closed peplos; cloak at back; looped folds of overfall preserved on left side. Weight rests on right leg; left relaxed ... 28 May 1959 ... Sculpture

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[Agora Object] S 896: Votive Relief Fragment

Left side only remains. Three men, a woman, a boy and a girl, all draped, move in a procession to the right. In the wall above, a rectangular panel with the lower part of a horse's head in relief, and ... 24 April 1937 ... Sculpture

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[Agora Object] S 965: Statuette Fragments: Draped Female

Two fragments which join at one point. Head and lower arms missing; much worn and chipped. Dowel holes for attachment of head and left toes. A female figure, her weight resting on her right leg, the left ... 24-26 August 1937 ... cloak covers her shoulders,

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 14, s. 24, p. xxiii

Agora 007, Lamps of the Roman Period, First to Seventh Century after Christ, by Judith Perlzweiger, 1961. Agora 008, Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, Mid Eighth to Late Seventh Century B.C., by Eva ... Agora 14 xxiii ... Agora 011, Archaic and Archaistic Sculpture, by Evelyn B. Harrison, 1965 ... Agora Picture Book 3, Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora, by Dorothy Burr

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[Agora Object] S 574: Head of Female Figure of Aphrodite Type

Small head of Aphrodite type. The hair is bound by a fillet and gathered into a large knot behind; a sakkos covers the hair and knot behind the fillet. Granular, white marble, perhaps Parian or Turkish ... 17 May 1935 ... covers the hair and knot

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[Agora Object] S 2485: Mask of Bearded God

Complete except for large chip from lower part of beard, and tip of nose. Front half of the head of a bearded God. The hair is parted in the middle and pulled in long strands to high over the ears, covering ... 23 June 1972 ... Sculpture

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 209, p. 190

Bearded herm with hanging corkscrew curls. Isthmia. Hearded herm from House of the Herm. Bronze heads of horses. Beardless miniature herms from House of the Herm. Kassel. Apollo. Hekate herm from House ... Agora 11 190 ... Beardless miniature herms from House of the Herm ... Ephesos, archaic temple of Artemis, sculptured drum

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[Agora Object] S 2437: Portrait Bust of Female Figure

Complete except for chips. Mended from three pieces. Portrait of a woman, head turned to right. Long wavy hair combed up and back away from face, bound in a large coil at back. Lightly incised eyebrows, ... Last quarter of 2nd c. A.D ... Sculpture

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[Agora Object] S 201: Basin Fragment with Head

Broken at all edges. Reused. On one side the background has been picked away to depth of about 0.006m. around the outline of a head in profile, which is short-haired and beardless, the features only slightly ... 12 March 1932 ... Sculpture

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[Agora Object] S 336: Portrait Head of Female Figure

The back of the head was apparently attached separately as the head is cut off in a line running obliquely from a point directly above the ears to one on the back of the neck. There is a cutting for attachment ... 145-175 A.D ... as partly to cover her

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[Agora Object] S 440: Draped Female Figure

Missing: the head, the right arm from above the elbow, the left hand, the left foot (doweled on) and parts of the drapery. The figure is seen walking swiftly forward, the left leg advanced, the drapery ... 13 March 1934 ... covers her left shoulder,

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[Agora Object] S 2062: Portrait Bust of Male Figure

Complete with only minor fractures; life-size. Short hair lying close to head. Mustache and light beard. Drapery hides right arm and hand held across chest. Pupils drilled, irises outlined by incision ... 3rd c. A.D ... Ideally, the object should be covered or moved indoors, but this is not

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 12.2, s. 73, p. 446

The Athenian Agora, Picture Books, Princeton, 1958, 1, B.A. Sparkes and L. Talcott, Pots and Pans of Classical Athens, Princeton, 1958, cover, title page, p. 2, figs. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 left and ... Agora 12 446 ... The Athenian Agora, Picture Book, 3, D.B. Thompson, Miniature Sculpture, Princeton, ... 1958, cover, title page, p.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 30, s. 263, p. 244

Fill. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 94, cat. no. 248, fig. 388:d. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 91, cat. no. 234, fig. 153. Well. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 87, cat. no. 213, fig. 41. T.B.L. Webster, Ἀρχ Ἐφ, 1953-1954 ... Agora 30 244 P 25342 P 18891 P 16911 P 13094 P 18800 P 15210 P 25885 A-B 19-20:1 A-B 21-22:1 O 19:4 B 19:11 G 18:1 ... 410 B.C ... C. Mattusch, Casting Techniques of Greek Bronze Sculpture: Foundries and Foundry ... Princeton 1982, cover

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[Agora Object] S 1295: Head of Herakles

Broken off across the neck; end of nose and chin chipped. Pick-marks on forehead. Head, half life-size, turned slightly to the figure's left. Hair and beard rendered in small tight bead-like curls. The ... 30 July 1947 ... Sculpture

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 6, s. 12, p. xii

C.M. Kaufmann, Graeco-aegyptische Koroplastic, Leipzig, Cairo, 1915. A.E. Klein, Child Life in Greek Art, New York, 1932. M. Kokolakis, Pantomimus and the Treatise Περί Ορχήσεως, Πλάτων, XI, 1959, pp ... Agora 6 xii ... D.B. Thompson, Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora, Agora Picture Book No.

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[Agora Object] S 1054: Statue of Hermes

Complete except for right hand, a bit of the caduceus and a fragment from the left arm, where there is a break, and an iron dowel, which joined the two parts in antiquity; the head made separately and ... 18 May 1938 ... Sculpture

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[Agora Object] S 370: Tripod Base with Figures in Relief

Broken at the top, and chipped on sides and bottom. The sides are concave, with roughly dressed fillets between them, in the lower part of each of these, a cutting for setting something. A bit of bronze ... 1 June 1933 ... his left, covered with a

[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 ... Items Inside Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora ... sculptured figures of humans and

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 29.1, s. 19, p. xix

Beardsley, G.H. 1929. The Negro in Greek and Roman Civilization. Baltimore/London. Beazley, J.D. 1946. Miniature Panathenaics, BSA 41, 1940-1945 [1946], pp. 10-21. Beazley, 1947. Etruscan Vase-Painting, ... Agora 29 xix ... Beazley, J.D. 1946. Miniature Panathenaics, BSA 41, 1940-1945 [1946], pp. 10-21 ... Bieber, M. 1961b. The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, rev. ed., New York

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[Agora Object] S 399: Base with Relief of Charioteer, Warrior and Quadrica

The base has been hacked away on top and in the back; great, rough cuttings extend from the central rectangular cutting on the top, presumably made when the base was first cut, to support what ever stood ... 4th c. B.C ... Sculpture

[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 ... studies of lamps, sculpture, ... inscriptions, sculpture, and ... volume covers a particular

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 12.2, s. 72, p. 445

Ἀρχαιολογική Ἐφημερίς, 1953-54, Part 1, pp. 205-206. Archeologia, Warsaw, XV, 1964, p. 192, fig. 25. Ashmolean Museum: Select Exhibition of Sir John and Lady Beazley's Gifts, 1912-1966, London, 1967 [Beazley ... Agora 12 445 ... Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus, ... 1958, cover, title page, p.