Bronze ballots (inscribed ψῆφος δημόσια, public ballots). 4th c. B.C. Athenian Agora Excavations.
An official standard bronze weight indicating a stater, or nearly two pounds.
A small, thin, bronze strip used as an identification ticket (πινάκιον, πινακίου, τό) used in the random selection of jurors, or dikasts (δικαστής, δικαστοῦ, ὁ). This ticket is inscribed with a potential juror’s name (Δημοφάνης), patronymic (Φιλ…), and deme (Κηφισιεύς).
Bibliography:
Museum Guide (2014), p. 140, fig. 77.
Mauzy (2006), p. 73, fig. 157.
AgoraPicBk 4 (2004), p. 23, fig. 26.
AgoraPicBk 23 (1994), p. 24, fig. 28.
Guide (1990), p. 247, fig. 151.
Guide (1976), p. 110.
Kroll (1972a), pp. 224-225, fig. 240, no. 130.
AgoraPicBk 4 (1960), fig. 22.
Archaeology 6 (1953), p. 143.
Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 216, pl. 71b.
Agora XIV, p. 53, pl. 39 e.
Agora XXVII, p. 61, pl. 7, no. P 2.
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So-called “Thermae boxer”; athlete resting after a boxing match. Bronze sculpture, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme Inv. 1055. Image by Marie-Lan Nguyen via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.
Bibliography
Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 23, fig. 16.
AgoraPicBk 4 (2004), p. 30, fig. 34.
Camp (1986), p. 127.
AgoraPicBk 20 (1982), fig. 6.
Guide (1976), p. 251, fig. 131.
Travlos (1971), fig. 701.
AgoraPicBk 4 (1960), fig. 14.
Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 362, fig. 51-52.
Agora X, p. 25, pl. 1, no. BW1.
Agora XIV, p. 44, pl. 33.
IG I3, 1411.