Marble

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.”

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.

A dedication of a stairway (ἄνοδος, ἀνόδου, ἡ), during the reign of the Roman emperor Publius Septimius Geta Caesar, ca. 200 A.D.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A plinth made of Pentelic marble for a bust, now missing, found at the late Roman level of the Ancient Agora excavations. Inscribed with the name of its dedicator, its inscription reads "ΚΙΤΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ," "Kittos dedicated (this)."

A columnar funeral monument to the enslaved Apollonios, found west of the Hephaistion among the sepulchral marbles in the Kerameikos neighborhood, where many funeral monuments were erected, often to members of rich families. There is a relief of a Loutrophoros, a distinctive type of Greek pottery with ritual significance in funerals, among other rites. These are commonly depicted in relief on funeral monuments such as these.

A fragment of a stele presenting a law given down from the Nomothetai, "Law Establishers," concerning the Lesser Panathenaia. The law is similar to a modern appropriations bill, relating how funding for the festival would be provided.