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| Thompson, H. A. Wycherley, R. E ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The subtitle, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center, suggests the general character of this volume, which provides an overview of the area that served as the civic center of Athens from ... 1972 |
| Cornice block from inside corner. Preserved in all dimensions; two sides with anathyrosis at right angles to each other; on the two sides without anathyrosis the stone is cut away, perhaps for lightening, ... 14 July 1931 |
| Top surface rough-picked to edge.
Bottom surface rough-picked, with a finished bearing surface. Beveled dowel cutting. Arrises, with a given spacing, wider at the bottom.
Pentelic marble.
Found at I/2-7/3 ... 23 March 1933 |
| Coarse, pinkish red to orange clay with some particles of mica. Buff slip outside; inside, and on face of lip, a thick red glaze or paint.
0.15m. from one end is an irregular hole, with a lid, for cleaning ... 23 June 1933 |
| Depth and width preserved.
One end, and part of the corona, broken.
Cuttings in back for wooden beams, spaced ca. 0.385m. clear dimension.
Anathyrosis on one end, which also bears a dowel cutting on the ... 27 January 1934 |
| Broken all around. Rather coarse yellowish clay. Thick buff slip on top and bottom which is flaking off.
Stamped: ΙΕΡΑΝΜΗΤΡΙΘΕΩΝ
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣΚΑΙΑΜΜΩΝΙΟΣ
Metroon series.
Cf. Negative number XXXIV-23. Black ... 4 April 1934 |
| Raking cornice with hawk's beak crowning molding, from the Stoa of Zeus.
Profile similar to A 367 (Η' 705).
Doric leaf pattern with some of the red color preserved on the leaf.
Pentelic marble. Found ... 1933 |
| A Tholos eaves tile, fragmentary but complete save for the tip, which has been restored on the evidence of A 864 (Ζ 1540). A triangular rain tile, its sides equipped with heavy flanges below, with light ... 15 February 1938 |
| Lower part of Tholos antefix and much of the carrying tile remain; the whole restored in plaster on the model of A 865 (Ζ 1541).
The tile is large and flat, expanding rapidly toward the back , channeled ... 22 April 1938 |
| About half of length and wall to full height preserved on one side.
Rectangular sarcophagus with plain projecting base, straight side wall with small and large half round moldings (archaic) at the top, ... June 1946 |
| One corner and part of one end broken away; otherwise complete. On one face two long concave cuttings, one wide and shaped rather like a rain tile, the other narrow and rather like a cover tile. Anathyrosis ... 17 July 1946 |
| Fragment from the lower right corner; the back worn down considerably with later re-use.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 1133 (Θ 1855). Found at I/17-12/2 (Fall 2016). Modern cellar wall on Eponymon Street. 1265, ... 15 June 1947 |
| Anta capital assembled from 36 fragments. Stoa Poikile series.
On the top of the capital note the following indications for the placing of the architrave: a relieving surface, 0.10m. wide and 0.003m. deep, ... April 1949, 17 March 1952 |
| Joint surface preserved at right end; the bed of a roughly cut rebate (?) at top; a more carefully cut notch at upper left corner; other edges broken. Front face finished with toothed chisel.
In face of ... April 1949 |
| One end broken away; edges chipped. Anathyrosis on preserved end.
Overhanging cornice on both sides; transition to resting surface on one side plain vertical, on the other cavetto and vertical.
Considerable ... 25 May 1950 |
| Five fragments preserve part of original surface of egg and dart molding of Altar of Temple of Ares (?)
a) Corner piece preserving a little of the projecting fascia above the egg and dart, the height 0.10m ... June 1950 |
| Mended from many fragments.
A shallow basin cut in one piece with a shaft square in section tapering toward the top. Weather traces show that the shaft had been set down ca. 0.07m. in its (missing) base ... 28 June 1950 |
| The flutes roughly cut away and the drum reused as a millstone (or olive press weight, see Expedition 21).
On the top mason's mark, the letters: Β Θ.
From the Temple of Ares.
Pentelic marble. Found at ... 1953 |
| Reused as millstone (or as olive press weight, see Expedition 21), but in excellent preservation.
On top, mason's mark, the letters: Σ Δ. On either side at bottom a dowel cutting and pry cutting.
From ... February 1953 |
| Corner. Mended from several pieces.
Plain antefix. Broken below and at left. The lion's head is in excellent state of preservation. Traces of red on mane. Brown red clay with bits in it.
From Heliaia ... 4 May 1953 |
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