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[Agora Image] 2008.18.0169 (HAT 56-111)

John L. Caskey, Director of the American School, delivering his remarks at the dedication ceremony, September 3, 1956 ... Courtesy of Life Magzine. Horizontal (normal) ... 3 Sep 1956

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[Agora Image] 2008.18.0171 (HAT 56-76)

Installation of the museum exhibition began in mid-August 1956. Eugene Vanderpool, a member of the staff, and his daughter, are working on one of the first gallery cases to be installed ... Horizontal (normal) ... August 1956

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[Agora Image] 2008.18.0172 (HAT 56-98)

Main gallery in the Agora museum ... south Horizontal (normal) ... September 1956

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[Agora Object] I 6524: Decree Fragment

Inscribed fragment of stele. The top akroterion and some of the bottom below the setting line broken away; otherwise intact. An attempt was made in antiquity to break up the stele, and a narrow channel ... 337/336 B.C.

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[Agora Object] S 1654: Draped Standing Female Figure: Aphrodite

The head broken off just above the base of the neck; the (raised) right arm, made separately and attached, missing, and the upper part of the cloak, held by the right arm, is broken away. Part of the left ... Middle of 2nd c. A.D.

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[Agora Object] S 182: Draped Female Figure: Nereid Akroterion

A life-size female figure. Missing: head, right arm below elbow, left arm just below shoulder legs below knees. Left shoulder mended from several fragments. Island (Parian) marble. Cf. S 1852 (Η' 920), ... 5th century B.C.

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[Agora Object] S 312: Winged Nike: Akroterion

Missing: head, right arm just below shoulder, left arm, right leg from immediately above knee, left leg from immediately above ankle; parts of the cloak at the back gone, also the fragments of drapery ... 21 March 1933

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[Agora Object] S 373: Head Fragment of Youthful Female Figure

Only the front half of the head remain, the hair bound with a fillet passing twice round the head. The hair is heavily weathered. Pentelic marble. Cf. the statue S 312, Nike. A fragment from the lower ... 5 June 1933