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| Plan of the house of the sculptors Mikion and Menon, in the residential and industrial district southwest of the Agora, 5th-3rd centuries B.C ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... 2006 |
| Top left: obsidian blades (ST 631, ST 632). Top right: lead strip (IL 1842). Middle left: lead strip (IL 1943). Middle right: lead tool (IL 1509). Bottom: lead tool (IL 1513) ... Barbara Tsakirgis
ST 1126 should be ΣΤ 1126 (IL 1943). Horizontal (normal) |
| Lead tool ... Barbara Tsakirgis Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Nov 2000 |
| Lead tool ... Barbara Tsakirgis Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Nov 2000 |
| Lead tool ... Barbara Tsakirgis Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Nov 2000 |
| Lead tool ... Barbara Tsakirgis Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Nov 2000 |
| Lead tool ... Barbara Tsakirgis Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Nov 2000 |
| Lead strip ... Barbara Tsakirgis Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Nov 2000 |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C. |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C. |
| Pounder ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Lead strip ... Horizontal (normal) |
Surface damaged, point missing.
Shaft ovoid in section, blade long and flat. Trench A, embedded in road II a. Approximately 55% RH, free of insects etc. Polyethylene ziplock bag sealed. 5133 Leica ... 8 August 1968 |
Shaft is preserved, blade broken away.
Shaft is circular in section, pointed at end. Marble Worker 's House. Below floor IV, layer XVIII. 5051, 5071 Leica ... 14 August 1968 |
| Inscribed.
Broken at one end. Surface highly polished.
Tool is rectangular in section, sharpened to point (probably repeatedly) at preserved end. Light incised lines separate letters.
Reverse has several ... 3 August 1968 |
| Small unfinished statuette. Back and sides of seat present smoothed; unfinished surfaces showing tool marks, perhaps quarry surfaces.
The under surface is cut away leaving in the center a rough projection ... 8 March 1932 |
| 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 |
| Appears complete.
One end blunt, other is pointed, shaped to curve for ca. one third the lenght of the tool.
A hook (?)
Cf. IL 1508. Marble Worker 's House, area E, section 2, layer 3. 5151 Leica, 97-11-30, ... 16 August 1968 |
| Complete.
Long tool square in section at center, tapering to points at both sides.
Cf. IL 1507. Marble Worker 's House, area B, layer II. 5053 Leica, 97-11-30, 97-11-31 ... 2 August 1968 |
| Broken at one end.
Tool of cast lead, roughly square in section at center.
Shaped to point at one end. It is bent and curved. Marble Worker 's House, west area A, layer XVI, below floor II. 5049 Leica, ... 31 July 1968 |
Broken at both ends.
Tool of cast lead, roughly square in section at center.
Shaped to point at one end. It is bent and curved.
Similar to IL 1513. Trench A. Road layer C above road 11 a. Intersection ... 16 July 1968 |
| A prismatic-shaped piece of abrasive stone, perhaps used to rub down or polish marble.
Sandstone.
ADDENDA Identified as "TPOXOΣ", and as being sandstone by A. Georgiades.
Cf. H.S.R. "Notes on Agora Stone-Worker's ... 1 April 1949 |
| Broken at both ends; slightly tapering.
Irregularly five-sided; part of a polisher similar to ST 456, made of sandstone.
Worn from use and one of the broken ends also worn smooth.
ADDENDA Identified as ... 1 April 1949 |
| Broken at one end.
Oblong shape with rounded end, smoothed from rubbing against stone.
Dense gray stone. Catalogued 30 June 1998. Area A, layer 16, fill above floor 3. House of Mikion and Menon. 5049 ... 31 July, 14 August 1968 |
| Single piece of stone.
Very smooth; rounded at one end for holding and broken away by repeated striking at other end.
Sculptor's tool (?).
Basalt (?). Catalogued 23 June 2000. "Demeter Cistern" ... 20 February-8 March 1932 |
| Single piece of pumice.
Worn smooth on several faces, and tapering to a point at one end. Catalogued 28 June 2000. "Demeter Cistern" ... 20 February-8 March 1932 |
Oxbow Books ... 1 978-1-78297-856-5 ... 2015 |
| A stylus-shaped instrument with a neatly shaped spatula point. Marble chips pit.
5th c. Leica ... 9 March 1937 |
| Intact.
Tool of cast lead, square in section at center. Tapers to flat, circular edge at one end, shaped to point at opposite end. Trench B-C. Associated with Marble Worker 's House.
Found in pit E along ... 10 July 1968 |
| Complete.
Tool of cast lead roughly square in section at center. Tapers to rounded edge at one end. Opposite end was chiseled off to blunt end. Area B. Embedded on top of crushed bedrock layer, on top ... 2 August 1968 |
| Complete.
Shaft irregular, roughly round in section at center, tapering to flat rounded edge at one end and to a point at the other.
Cf. IL 1507. Marble Worker 's House, area E, sections 1 and 2, layer ... 16 August 1968 |
| Intact, but slightly bent. Tan corrosion.
Rectangular strip, tapering to one end, where it is bent over upon itself to create a narrow eye. Beside BE (section) scarp. Basket 5. ziplock polyethylene bag ... 16 July 1995 |
| Single piece of lead, broken off at both ends.
Square-sectioned strip of lead, tapering to one end, slightly flattened at the other. Added 21 June, 2000 "Demeter Cistern" ... 20 February-8 March 1932 |
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