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[Agora Object] A 2254: Building Block Fragment with Masons' Mark

One upper corner only remains. Bearing surface on top; anathyrosis across top and down front of end. Carefully cut in top surface, mason's letter: Λ. From the Temple of Ares. Pentelic marble. See A 238 ... 2 June 1936 ... Ares. Pentelic marble. See A ... From an early Byzantine fill at N.E. corner of section. Originally numbered A

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[Agora Object] P 18243: Bowl Fragments with Relief Decoration

a) Three joining fragments preserve part of the flaring rim with moulded vertical face and of the wall of a deep bowl. Decoration from top to bottom: two light grooves; then a band of egg and dart; then ... 16 June, 5 July 1947 ... Agora

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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 ... Hesperia 90 (2021), nos. 21, 22, pp. 571, 580-586, 589, figs. 40, 41 ... Hesperia 88 (2019), p. 694, n. 150 ... Stewart (2019), p. 91.

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[Agora Object] S 586: Herm Portrait: Inscribed

Completely preserved except for phallus. The top of the head is flat and rough-picked, and was probably originally finished with stucco. Realistic portrait of an elderly man, the lines and folds of flesh ... Period of Hadrian ... Agora:Object:Graindor (1931), fig. 4 ... Gkikaki (2019), p. 129, n. 18 ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 180, n. 2.

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[Agora Object] S 1539: Knee Fragment from Akroterion

Broken behind, just above and just below the knee, and to right. Draped right knee, slightly bent, from a life-size statue from akroterion of Temple of Ares. Good workmanship. Pentelic marble. Joins Nike ... 16 June 1951 ... references to other akroteria from Agora see: Hesperia 22 ... from a life-size statue from

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[Agora Object] SS 1183: Stamped Amphora Handle: Rhodian

Angle fragment. Clay rather pale. Chipping at edge of inner break of fragment has removed a little of the circumference of the impression, which is otherwise quite fresh. Most of the area is occupied ... 5 March 1933 ... Θ:18-22/ΛΑ-ΜΣΤ

[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 ... 408/7 B.C. and A.D. 231/2 ... and the 2nd century A ... at a later period. An

[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 ... Agora was the focus of a ... creation of the Agora as a civic ... Inside The Athenian Agora, A