Funeral Lekythos with Relief Carving
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A funeral lekythos with relief. Above the seated figure is the inscription: ΠΕΙΘΙΣ. 4th c. B.C.
A funeral lekythos with relief. Above the seated figure is the inscription: ΠΕΙΘΙΣ. 4th c. B.C.
A fragment of a dedicatory inscription, later re-used as a doorsill. Note the footwear on the left side of the stone and the large notch used to hold a door post. 1st c. A.D.
Bibliography
Agora XVIII, no. H494, pl. 50.
IG II2, no. 4116.
A fragment of a funerary lekythos. Names are inscribed above the heads of the three figures: Τιμοκράτης, Κλεόμαχος, Τιμοκράτης.
Bibliography
Museum Guide (2014), pp. 26-27, fig. 14.
Schmaltz (1970), no. A 214.
Hesperia 30 (1961), p. 276, no. 124, pl. 55.
Agora XVII, no. 994, p. 174.
Agora XXXV, no. 182, pl. 57.
A marble basin fragment, written in the Attic alphabet, ca. 500 B.C. The rim is inscribed with part of an inscription reading: “of the Bouleuterion.”
Bibliography
Museum Guide (2014), p. 148.
Shear (1994), p. 236, no. 52, fig. 11.
Guide (1976), p. 253.
Ginouvès (1962), p. 307, no. 5.
Guide (1962), p. 167.
Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), p. 143, fig. 102a.
Agora III, no. 605, pp. 182-183.
Agora XIV, p. 30, pl. 30d.
Agora XVIII, no. A25.
A marble base for a bronze statue. The inscription honors a young woman, who received crowns for her service as a hearth initiate, and for leading the processions at important festivals for Apollo and Athena. 2nd c. B.C.
Bibliography
Agora XVIII, no. H333, pl. 31.
A dedication of a stairway (ἄνοδος, ἀνόδου, ἡ), during the reign of the Roman emperor Publius Septimius Geta Caesar, ca. 200 A.D.
Bibliography
Agora XVIII, no. C223, pl. 20.
A fragment of a dedicatory inscription of the late 4th or 5th c. A.D. Two sets of smaller letters (ΤΩΝ and ΡΑ) can be found between lines 1 and 2. These are corrections to the original inscription.
Bibliography
Agora XVIII, no. X760, pl. 77.
A base for a statue made by the renowned 4th c. B.C. sculptor Praxiteles (note the bottom line of inscription, "ΠΡΑΞΙΤΕΛΗΣ ΕΠΟΙΗ[ΣΕ]Ν῾. The inscription dates to ca. 50 B.C.-50 A.D. The base was later incorporated into the Post-Herulian Wall, a late Roman wall that was hastily built to fend off invaders. The base remains in this wall today.
Bibliography
Hesperia 12 (1943), p. 55, no. 13.
Agora XVIII, no. H352, pl. 33.
Agora XXIV, p. 130.
IG2, no. 3886.
A fragment of a Peloponnesian War-era decree of the Athenians concerning Aphytis, a city in the Chalcidice, a peninsula in northeastern Greece, toward the edge of Athens' imperial reach The decree concerned the importation of corn, and was modeled after a similar decree concerning Methone, another northern Greek city towards the outskirts of the Athenian empire.
Later, the fragment was used as a Byzantine-era door threshold; the large round hole bored into the stone is for a doorpost.
Bibliography:
Hesperia 63 (1994), p. 172.
Hesperia 13 (1944), p. 211, no. 2.
Agora XVI, no. 15, p. 18.
IG I3, no. 62.
A monument fragment in two pieces, dedicated to Athenokles. The man is depicted wearing a petasos and chlamys, a hat and cloak most often associated with farmers, hunters, and other rural people.
Bibliography
Clairmont (1993), no. 1.193.
Guide (1976), p. 300.
AgoraPicBk 10 (1966), fig. 34.
Guide (1962), p. 192.
Peek (1955), no. 344.
ILN (18 July 1936).
Agora XVII, no. 697, p. 133.
Agora XXXV, no. 78, pl. 23.
IG II2, no. 10593.
Bibliography
AM 85 (1970), p. 84, no. 160, pl. 27.
Schmaltz (1970), no. A 155.
Hesperia 29 (1960), p. 84, no. 160, pl. 27.
Agora XVII, no. 954, p. 168.
Agora XXXV, no. 164, pl. 50.