Parque Natural Sintra-Cascais

forest scene with trees and a small clearing
Agent:
Paulo Valdivieso
Date:
2017
Subject:
Luisa Sigaea

A pool in the Sintra Forest, Portugal

A pool in the Sintra Forest, Portugal
Agent:
Hans Porochelt
Date:
2012
Image Credit:
Flickr user Hans Porochelt
Subject:
Luisa Sigaea

View of the Sintra from the garden of the Comte de Povoa, National Palace in the background

print drawing of a palace above a leafy landscape
Date:
1840
Subject:
Luisa Sigaea

Altar of Zeus Phratrios and Athena Phratria

A large, plain marble altar with a single line of Greek lettering.
Date:
Late 4th C. BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Relief of the Cave of Pan (The North Slope of the Acropolis)

A half-moon shaped marble slab with a relief sculpture of a cave containing several figures and an animal
Date:
ca. 330 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Votive Stele to the hero Kallistephanos

A large rectangular marble slab, the top containing a relief scene with four figures and lines of Greek lettering beneath
Date:
4th C. BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Official Bronze Stater from the Athenian Agora Excavations

A rectangular bronze block with a relief in the center and a single line of Greek lettering.
Date:
ca. 500 BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Inscribed Fragment of a Panathenaic Amphora

A roughly triangularly shaped clay fragment with part of two lines of Greek lettering and a part of a pedestal and figure
Date:
3rd C. BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a Monument Celebrating a Tribal Victory at the Panathenaia.

A section of marble with relief sculpture of an organized line of horses with riders.
Date:
ca. 400 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Monument Fragment with a Relief of a Butterfly

A block of marble with a fragment of a relief sculpture showing a butterfly head, abdomen, and wing.
Date:
1st - 2nd C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

A Grave Monument for a Girl found in the Athenian Agora

A marble fragment with lines of Greek lettering in the middle and a fragment of a niche at the bottom.
Date:
1st to 2nd C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Base of an Altar to Nemesis from the Athenian Agora

two fragments of a marble rectangular base with lines of Greek lettering.
Date:
3rd C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Bilingual Monument from the Athenian Agora Excavations

A marble monument base with lines of Latin lettering on the top half and lines of Greek lettering on the bottom half.
Date:
1st C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Dedicatory Plaque Fragment, Probably "To the Hero Physician"

A fragment of marble showing a relief fragment of a relief sculpture depicting an eye.
Date:
3rd - 2nd C. BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of an Altar Likely to Augustus from the Athenian Agora

A rhomboid fragment of marble with lines of Greek lettering inscribed.
Date:
1st C. BC to 1st C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

A Lekythos Fragment with Relief and Inscription

A marble fragment with a partial relief of two figures and a name in Greek lettering above the left figure.
Date:
4th century BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a list of Athenian Councillors

A fragment, in two pieces, with partial lines of Greek lettering.
Date:
2nd C. BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a Statue Base for Archippe

A badly chipped rectangular slab of marble with lines of Greek lettering.
Date:
4th C. BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Athenian Record of Confiscation of Property in 414/3

A fragment of a marble slab with organized lines of Greek lettering
Date:
414/c BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of an Inscribed Herm Found at the Ancient Athenian Agora

A Large rectangular marble fragment with the remains of a depiction of a beard and clothing at the top, and lines of Greek lettering towards the bottom
Date:
4th C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a Votive Offering to Zeus Hypsistos

A marble fragment with two vertical cylinders and two lines of Greek lettering beneath them.
Date:
2nd C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Statue Base for a Roman Emperor Found at the Ancient Athenian Agora

An square shaped chunk of marble with a single line of Greek lettering
Date:
1st C. ad
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Ostraka of Themistocles the Athenian General

A series of 12 circular clay objects with black glaze, each inscribed with the same line of Greek lettering.
Date:
472 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Official Ancient Athenian Olpe

A red clay jug with much of its glaze missing except for a small black stripe on the shoulder and at the rim, and a large black marking on the top third of the vessel.
Date:
5th C. BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Rhodian Amphora Handle Stamped with the Head of Helios

A clay handle with a stamp containing two lines of Greek lettering and a figure's head
Date:
Hellenistic Period

Stamped Rhodian Amphora from the Athenian Agora

A section of a clay vessel with a stamp in the middle, containing two lines of Greek lettering.
Date:
Hellenistic Period (323-146 BC)
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragmentary Waterclock (Klepsydra)

A fragmented vessel with two handles on either side and a small spout at the bottom.
Date:
Late 5th c. BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Funeral Lekythos with Relief Carving

The main body of a vessel, decorated with a relief carving of two people, as well as a single word of Greek lettering
Date:
4th C. BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a Dedicatory Inscription Later Reused as a Door Sill

A rectangular block of marble with two lines of Greek lettering, preserved on the right side but worn away on the left side. A large notch is cut away from the right hand edge.
Date:
1st C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Detail from a Large Hoard of Athenian Tetradrachms

A detail of a number of small metal coins stuck together, many with the visible Greek lettering "ΑΘΕ"
Date:
4th C. BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of an Inscribed Funerary Lekythos

A large section of a marble vessel with a depiction of three figures, with badly worn Greek lettering above each figure's head.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a Shallow Marble Basin

An irregularly shaped white marble fragment with a line of Greek lettering along the rim
Date:
ca. 500 BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Greek Inscribed Marble Base for a Bronze Statue

A tall rectangular marble base with lines of Greek lettering and three wreath motifs with more Greek lettering within.
Date:
2nd C. BC.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Dedicatory Fragment for an Ancient Greek Stairway

Two triangular marble fragments with lines of Greek lettering
Date:
ca. 200 AD.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a Dedicatory Inscription with Later Corrections

A marble fragment with a flat top and a rounded bottom, with three lines of Greek lettering. Between the first and second line, there are smaller fragments of text.
Date:
Late 4th to 5th C. AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Base of a Statue Created by Praxiteles

A rectangular block of marble with 4 lines of greek lettering
Date:
4th C BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a 426/5 Athenian Decree concerning Aphytis

A badly corroded rectancular slab of marble with lines of greek lettering. Two thirds of the way down, at center, A circular hole appears to have been worn in.
Date:
426/5 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Grave Monument for Athenokles

A slab of marble with two lines of Greek lettering at the top, and underneath, a relief of a man's head and shoulders in profile.
Date:
4th C BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Plinth for a Bust Dedicated by Kittos

A round marble base, with stumps broken off on the top and a single line of Greek lettering across the front face
Date:
4th C BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Columnar Grave Monument for Apollonios the Slave

A straight marble column with a relief of a loutrophoros on the side.
Date:
Late 4th C. BC. to Early 4th C. AD.
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of the ca. 335 Law Concerning the Lesser Panathenaia

Oblong fragment of marble with lines of Greek lettering
Date:
ca 335
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Base of an Altar of Zeus Ombrios

External stone platform, badly corroded and chipped, with a line of four Greek letters
Date:
ca 100 AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Law Stele with a Copy of an Anti-Tyranny Law of 337 BC

A large, long, rectabgular slab of marble, the top third of which depicts a man and woman, the rest of which contains lines of Greek lettering
Date:
337 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragment of a Grave Monument from the Ancient Athenian Agora

A triangular fragment of Pentelic marble, the top half of which is decorated in an Acanthus motif and the bottom half of which has a fragment of a line of Greek Lettering
Date:
ca 1st c BC-1st c AD
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Black Kylix Base, Hobnails, and Eyelets from the House of Simon the Cobbler

A round, black, clay base of a drinking cup at center, surrounded by round bone eyelets strung on a leather string and iron hobnails
Date:
5th C BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Fragmentary list of Late 6th Century Athenian Archons

An irregularly shaped marble fragment containing fragments of six lines of Greek lettering
Date:
6th c. BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Inscribed Ancient Agora Boundary Stone

A tall, rectangular, rough-carved coarse marble stone, with a single line of Greek lettering along the top and right-hand side of the front face.
Date:
ca 500 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Bronze Dikast Ticket with the Name of a Potential Juror

A thin metal strip punched with two lines of Greek lettering
Date:
4th century BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

5th Century BC Silver Tetradrachm Depicting Athena

The front and backside of a small silver coin, the front side with the head of a woman, the back side with an owl.
Date:
ca 450-404 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Two Ostraka for Xanthippos Arriphronos

Two small pottery fragments serving as Ostraka, the first with three rows of Greek text, the second with two rows of Greek text.
Date:
ca. 484 BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens