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| Stoa of Attalos under reconstruction. Homer A. Thompson to the right ... Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Stone cutters at work in the marble shed ... Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Drilling a block of marble ... Mauzy (2006), p. 52, fig. 95.
Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| The marble saw ... Cf. LXV-54.
Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Marble cutter working on an Ionic capital ... Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Mastoras Kostas inspecting the cutting of an Ionic capital ... Cf. Mauzy (2006), p. 50, fig. 89.
Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Marble cutters at work on column drums ... Cf. Mauzy (2006), pp. 53, 60, figs. 98, 115.
Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Workmen pushing a column drum by rail cart ... Cf. Mauzy (2006), p. 61, fig. 120.
Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Lifting a column drum ... Cf. Mauzy (2006), p. 61, fig. 121.
Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Fluting a Doric column ... Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Stoa of Attalos, model of the north end. Scale 1:50 ... Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Basement storage, inscriptions department ... Scanned from prints found in an envelope from The Associated Press, Grande Bretange Hotel, Athens Horizontal (normal) ... 1955 |
| Speaker's Platform Unknown Conglomerate Poor, foundations only ... 150-100 B.C. |
| Complete except for chips. Mended from six pieces. Plain shaft, without flutes, Ionic rather than Corinthian because of presumed association with capital formed in area (A 4434 and A 4435). On either side, ... August 1972 |
| Broken at one end. Moldings, from top to bottom: a fillet, a cyma reversa, a fascia, a fillet, a flattened ovolo, and two fasciae. On top of back, an ovolo. Much of tooling on front face left visible, ... December 1973 |
| All of back and upper moldings with soffit on front broken away. One end, somewhat crudely tooled, preserved. Mended from two pieces. From bottom up: row of dentils on inclined fillet, and a cyma reversa ... December 1973 |
| Doric cornice block, no full dimensions preserved, re-cut as Ionic cornice. Slightly more than a third of one mutule preserved, with five guttae. Double fascia on face; soffit above broken away. No certain ... August 1973 |
Largely complete, chips missing. Standard Attic Ionic base. Cuttings on opposite sides, apparently for insertion of parapet slabs, with width narrowing from outside to within. No cutting on bottom. Round ... August 1973 |
| Right hand end of block preserved, broken at left. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Set upright resting on its back ... 13 November 1985 |
| Right hand end of block preserved, broken at left. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Set upright, resting on its back ... 13 November 1985 |
| Broken at both left and right hand ends. One of several step blocks from Square Peristyle building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of Royal Stoa. Set upright, resting on its back face; most of top ... 13 November 1985 |
| Small portion of left end of block preserved, broken at right. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Fully exposed except ... 13 November 1985 |
| Left hand end of block preserved, broken at right. One of several step blocks from the Square Peristyle Building reused for retaining wall in forecourt of the Royal Stoa. Front face much worn but preserves ... 13 November 1985 |
| Broken on left end, finished with anathyrosis on right end; rough picked on back; very rough worked on bottom. The thickness at the front is less than that at the back.
At the right end on the under side ... 30 March 1933 |
| Front horizontal cornice with hawk's beak crowning molding.
From the left hand corner of the pediment of the Stoa of Zeus. The superimposed first block of the raking geison was cut in a separate piece; ... 1933 |
| Top surface and perhaps surface of left edge preserved.
Hawk's beak molding with traces of blue and red decoration painted directly on the stone. From Square Peristyle geison, cf. A 2414.
Poros. Square ... 9 July 1949 |
| One front corner remains with complete profile of hawk's beak.
Travertine-like limestone presumably to be stuccoed.
From Square Peristyle, South Stoa II. From a marble pile to east of south end of Stoa ... 28 June 1950 |
Fragment of an unfluted column with a simple torus molding at the bottom. Part of dowel hole at center of bottom preserved. Broken above and at both sides, but nearly the full diameter of the shaft is ... 14 April 1951 |
Fragment from one end of a column, the upper (?), with part of molding: half-round above plain band.
Same series as A 1770 (ΣΑ 2235), Monopteros.
Green marble. Marble dump at north end of section. 3232 ... 14 April 1951 |
| Chipped; upper back right corner broken away. Above and right side worked with small toothed chisel, the same on the left side but an anathyrosis is left here. Back and below left rough. At left edge, ... 17 April 1951 |
Broken at sides, front and back.
Red on plain soffit, blue on mutule. One gutta preserved.
From raking cornice (?) of Square Peristyle.
See A 1926 (Τ1097) and A 1946 (Τ 1217); series of A 137 and A 172; ... 9 April 1952 |
| Fragment preserves part of two adjacent sides. Acanthus and scales on bolsters; egg, dart and lateral half palmettes on spiral end. Two pour channels in top, one dowel hole in bottom.
From Stoa of Attalos ... 13 August 1952 |
Small fragment from face of drum preserving parts of three flutings; broken on all other sides. The arris brought to an edge as sharp as the material permitted. Surface finished with toothed chisel. Surface ... 12 August 1952 |
Small fragment preserving part of face of cornice and three guttae; broken at sides; top and back.
Hard white poros; bright blue paint on underside of mutule.
From Square Peristyle.
Same as A 1926, A 1946, ... 20 February 1953 |
Fragment of mutule and two guttae. Original top. Broken at front, back, and right end. Joint surface at left. Half of mutule on next block. Via partly preserved at right.
Light buff poros with holes in ... 12 May 1953 |
| Two joining pieces; complete except for chips.
a) Section of base for pilaster. Moldings above plinth are, from bottom: torus, scotia with projecting crowning fillet, torus. Large square empolion cutting ... 10 May 1971 |
| Left end of block with "anathyrosis" on left end. Top and back rough-picked. Top seems to slope down toward pear from a point ca. 0.30m. from front. At this point the top is cut down to form a channel ... 12 June 1971 |
| Broken above, below and on one side. Sixteen flutes. One arris damaged in antiquity; neat bedding for repair.
Marble. Built into rubble wall of late phase of Predecessor of Square Building. 931, 933, 2949, ... 2 December 1953 |
| Square, complete except for two chips. Smooth picked on all sides.
Pentelic marble. Finished Column base at south end of rubble wall of late phase of Predecessor of Square Building. 3616, 3617 Leica PD ... 2 December 1953 |
Fragment preserves small part of mutule, including one edge and one gutta.
The soffit of the mutule painted blue, the gutta reserved.
Hard gray poros.
From Square Peristyle. Stoa Pier 21, Stoa filling ... 9 March 1954 |
| Scores of fragments were found. Some of the pieces have been made up into two panels. The rest are stored in a tray.
The plaster is of three colors, red, black and a stippled white. Enough is preserved ... 11 December 1953 |
| Cuttings in under side for two channel dowels placed on radii alternating with dowels in top of base; dowels centered 0.20m. in from periphery.
From Stoa of Attalos.
Removed from poros bedding below base ... 5 August 1955 |
| Broken at back and sides. Decoration in two zones: palmettes and running tendrils.
White marble.
From round building in Section Σ (Monopteros). Provenience unknown. Leica PD 2268 ... 1st half of 2nd c. A.D. |
| Virtually complete though splinters are missing from front and back. Right edge dressed to be visible; the base molding would seem to have returned around this edge and later to have been worked down presumably ... Post 126-138 A.D. |
| Freshly broken in three pieces; many abrasions and heavy weathering. Rough anathyrosis on right and left edges. Traces of dowels in bottom 0.20m. and 0.25m in front of edges. In the preserved top, there ... Post c. 126-138 A.D. |
Small fragment retaining undercut hood between two glyphs.
Material and workmanship as of A 2915 series.
Square Peristyle - South Stoa.
Travertine.
Same: A 1973, A 2239, A 2924. Found in front of east ... July 1959 |
| Comprised of four drums. Square empolion cuttings for all joints except that between shaft and base. Drums neatly lettered from top down Ζ - Κ.
With this shaft goes capital A 2973 and base A 2891-A 2892 ... July 1959 |
| Comprised of four drums. Square empolion cuttings for all joints except that between shaft and base. Drums neatly lettered from top down Λ - Ο.
Marble. Found at R/6-15/19 (Fall 2016). From tower of Late ... July 1959 |
Broken all around except top and bottom.
From Square Peristyle.
Poros of Akti; fair work. Traces of fire (?). Imbedded in the foundation of the eastern of the two N.-S. walls in the west part of the Heliaia, ... 18 August 1961 |
Shoulder and neck fragment. Max. dim. 0.079.
All that remains is ornament: egg pattern with darts;palmettes and leaves above and below. At right of hangingpalmette:
White (very faint): inscription ... Ca. 410-400 B.C. |
| Restored in plaster.
Incised letter and painted Λ. Thin band and vertical one.
Buff, brown glaze on rim. Carl Roebuck, Nb. No. 7.
Well A. 353 VG 623.22-(23,24,25) ... 12 May 1930 |
| Colossal statue, the legs broken off; the head, the left arm from the shoulder and the right arm from the elbow, all made separately, are missing.
The figure wears kilt, corselet and cloak. The corselet ... 117-138 A.D. |
| 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. |
Profile preserved from lip to lower wall.
Double upper zone: above, row of horizontal spirals and upright leaves; below egg and dart; line of beading between the two zones. Wall: to left, a nude bearded ... (1935) |
Strap handle with fragment of broad rim. Lines down sides. Squid in center. Eyes and two feet incised. Purple on feet. Dot rosette. Drain, red sand fill. Leica, 81-570 ... May 1934 |
| Wall fragment, glazed inside. Outside, left bottom, horse's head. Eye reserved, head in outline incision. (Guilloche) tail down middle, parts of animal at right.
Glaze very worn; heavy fabric. Tholos ... 19 February 1938 |
Piece of moulded rim and body. Finished edge at left. Rim and edge glazed with wide black, narrow red stripe.
Dull black glaze. Cistern. Leica, 80-625, 81-604 PD 1042, PD 1098 ... 1937 |
| Shallow bowl. Legs riveted at the rim and a pierced disk-shaped handle on one side.
Thin and poorly made.
Cf. ArchEph (1917), pp. 208-209 (for tripods found at Sounion); Olympia IV, pl. XXVII, nos. 536 ... 5 April 1933 |
Handle missing.
Roughly tubular pot. Grayish buff clay; heavy fabric.
Similar, the handle preserved, P 10406 Len. Hesperia, XXXII, 1963, pl. 47, 28 ... Context ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Hawk's beak from epistyle of Square Peristyle.
Coarse limestone darkened by fire (?).
From same series as A 2922; cf. also A 2925. Found 18.00m. from east end of South Stoa II, behind foundation of colonnade ... 22 May 1965 |
| Two joining fragments of monument base corner block with only small chips missing from original surface. Above a plinth the moldings ascend and step back toward the interior in the order of toros, square ... 24 July 1969 |
| Well preserved except for corner of lower torus, which is broken away.
Corner block as A 3732 with same features. Upper surface has one lewis hole and a shallow cutting for a dovetail clamp on the return ... 24 July 1969 |
| Fillet and lower toros and face of plinth all broken away. Like A 3732 but from straight course rather than corner. Upper surface preserves lewis hole. Dowel hole without pour channel, and cutting for ... 24 July 1969 |
| Plinth, lower toros and square fillet broken away on right half of block. Like A 3732 but from straight course. On upper surface are cuttings for Π-clamps at both ends and what appear to be three dowel ... 24 July 1969 |
| Plinth, lower toros, and square fillet broken for left one-third of the block and block is cracked through behind this. Like A 3732 but from straight course. Upper surface preserves cutting for Π-clamps ... 24 July 1969 |
| Upper left corner is broken off but joining fragment survives. Like A 3732 but from straight course. On upper surface are cutting for Π-clamp on right, lewis hole in center, and dowel (?) hole on left ... 24 July 1969 |
| Three joining fragments only, the left of which preserves the full molding face. Upper left corner of this piece broken away. Like A 3732 but from straight course. On upper surface are three dowel cuttings ... 24 July 1969 |
| Right side broken off. Like A 3732. Upper surface preserves dowel hole without pour channel and cutting for Π-clamp. Right corner of back is cut in roughly 0.15m. from rear surface on left. Anathyrosis ... 24 July 1969 |
Handles missing.
High moulded ring foot; rim offset inside. Scraped circles on underside. Decoration inside: four palmettes within rouletting.
Same stamp as cup-kantharos 655, Pl. 28.
Restored in plaster ... Ca. 375 B.C. |
Most of handles missing.
Moulded foot, concave beneath, with reserved groove in resting surface. Scraped line at junction of two mouldings on lower part of foot. Shallow body. Decoration inside: seven ... 375-350 B.C. |
Most of handles missing.
Moulded foot, concave beneath, with reserved groove in resting surface. Decoration inside: four palmettes within a spiral of rouletting. Glaze very thin in parts, giving an uneven, ... Ca. 375 B.C. |
About a quarter; profile not complete.
Ring foot with light groove in resting surface and nipple on underside. Thickened rim with groove at inner edge and fillet beneath. Decoration on floor: alternately ... 375-350 B.C. |
| The left half of a terracotta sima, preserved to full height. Trace of lion's head spout at right. A goodly amount of tile preserved behind.
On front in relief an ornate floral design. Red color on flat ... 24 April 1935 |
Part of foot, floor and wall.
Moulded ring foot. Rim offset inside. Reserved: underside with two bands and two circles (center missing); groove above junction of wall and foot. Decoration inside: zone ... Ca. 375 B.C. |
| The figure is nearly intact except for some object in the right hand. Mended from three pieces.
A standing male figure clad in himation and Phrygian cap and carrying pine cones and fruit. The man is nude ... 2nd century A.D. |
| The nose and chin have been considerably damaged. At the base of the neck, a roughly picked tongue indicates that the head was inserted into a separate body.
Head, larger than life-size, perhaps of Trajan ... Flavian period. |
| 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 |
| Missing: head (which was inserted); right arm (formerly doweled on, as was right foot, traces of the rust of the arm dowel, and the actual dowel itself in the foot are still preserved); fragment from back ... 8 June 1933 |
| 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. |
| A group of two girls, one carrying the other.
Missing, the carrier's head, body below the waist, left upper arm, left breast; of the carried, the head, left forearm, the legs from near the knees.
The ... 23 February 1934 |
| Whole jar, missing wall fragments;broad flat outwards projecting rim; no groove, ring foot.
Capacity (wheat, revised by VG 1939) 45.250
Pinkish-buff clay, slipped; light gray core.
Finger depression ... 2nd quarter-3rd quarter of 4th century B.C. |
| For detailed description see H. A. Thompson's article in ArchEph (1953-1954), pp. 30-44.
Cf. A 41 for fragments of kithara. Catalogued 1961. Found in 1907 ca. 20.00m. south of Temple of Apollo Patroos ... 1907 |
| About half of rim and fragments of wall missing. Restored in plaster. Small flat-bottomed knob as base; deep ovoid body; short concave neck; flat-topped rim.
Buff clay. Traces of black glaze on inside ... 9-12 February 1937 |
| Wall fragmentary; restored in plaster. Plump eggy body and short straight neck with plain flaring thickened lip. Handles, shoulder to middle of neck. Rounded bottom with small pointed knob, chipped. Shallow ... 7, 9 March 1939 |
| Mended from many fragments.
Unglazed. Well, containers 97, 99. 5789 Leica ... July 1955 |
The lower part of the lamp is preserved on one side to just above the point where it curves in and is joined by the top. Blackened inside and out and along the break, at the top of the fragment, the lamp ... 11 April 1933 |
| Surface gone from lower left part of plaque.
A goddess with upraised hands standing between two snakes. The head in relief. In upper corners, holes for suspension.
Painting in deep red over white slip, ... 31 March 1932 |
| Blue, white and red concentric bands round white center. Inside, arm and hand straps.
Inside, traces of white paint.
Pinkish buff clay. Πήλινο αναθηματικό ομοίωμα ασπίδος. Φέρει ομόκεντρες λευκές, ερυθρές ... 30 March 1932 |
| Mended from several fragments. Bit missing from margin. Marginal strap broken away.
Red margin and center; between, three red crescents on cream ground. Inside, central strap.
Pinkish buff clay. Πήλινο ... 30 March 1932 |
| Pierced horizontally near top.
It has incised filled decoration. Pattern mostly in seam motif: lines bordered by rows of dots. Zone round center in seam line, zigzag. Four seam lines alternating with ... 8 April 1932 |
| Four horses with driver figurine.
Forelegs missing; mended from many fragments.
The driver leans against the long hind legs of the central horses and rests his hands on their backs. The driver stands on ... 31 March 1932 |
| Painted bird figurine with spreading base.
Long neck and tail. The species not easily identifiable.
Red and blue stripes on white ground. Blue painted eyes.
Probably some kind of water-bird.
Cf. Roes ... 31 March 1932 |
| Columnar type with spreading base.
Left arm missing. Broken from a base.
Elongated figure, flattened at chest. Helmeted head; bird-like face. Broad shoulders. Right arm close to body preserved to bent ... 31 March 1932 |
| Columnar type with spreading flattened base.
Left arm missing. Mended from two pieces (body and right arm).
Bearded, helmeted man. Right arm raised as for a spear; a shield probably hung on his left arm ... 31 March 1932 |
| Belted rider with bent-back legs.
Arms missing.
Bird-like face with beard (?). Both arms extended forward. Underneath smoothfinished; no trace attachment.
A red and a yellow band from shoulder to opposite ... 31 March 1932 |
| Large collared horse, which is part of a chariot group.
Right front leg missing. No tail. Mended from four fragments. On the back, behind the collar, a broken surface: rider, or additional harness (?) ... 31 March 1932 |
| Broken below waist; lower parts of arms missing.
Right arm bent up to hold a spear, left arm bent at elbow. Bird-like face with beard (?). Evidence of vanished cross-stripe across left shoulder, in another ... 31 March 1932 |
| The horse seems to have been running.
Legs missing.
It has lifted tail. Spirited effect produced by tossed back head, open mouth, and exaggerated modelling of neck.
White with considerable red paint.
Pinkish ... 5 April 1932 |
| Most of right foreleg and left hindleg missing. Legs repaired from three pieces. No feet preserved.
Tail down the right leg.
All over pattern in red stripes and dots on white paint.
Pinkish buff clay ... 13 April 1932 |
| Mended from two pieces; arms missing from shoulders.
Lower and smeared against part of a continuous narrow base. Pinched bird-like head. Indication of drapery down front. Back plain.
Traces of white color ... 13 April 1932 |
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