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

Vessel Fragment with Graffito of the Partial Greek Alphabet

An oblong fragment of a red clay vessel with two lines of Greek lettering.
Date:
6th c. BC
Image Credit:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Classical Greek: Aorist Active Participles λύω

Paradigm of the Aorist Active Participles for λύω
Subject:
Greek, Verbs, Participle

Common Verbs of the Greek 2nd Aorist

A list of Common Greek 2nd Aorist verbs with synopsis of the moods
Subject:
Greek, Verbs, Aorist System

Greek 2nd Aorist Middle Verbs: λείπω

Paradigm of the 2nd Aorist Middle of λείπω
Subject:
Greek, Verbs, Middle, Aorist System

Greek 2nd Aorist Active Verbs: λείπω

Paradigm of the 2nd Aortist Active of λείπω
Subject:
Greek, Verbs, Aorist System, Active

Athenian Drinking Cup Depicting a Symposium

An Athenian drinking cup depicting a symposium scene.
Date:
ca. 485 BC
Image Credit:
British Museum

Le Jupiter Olympien (The Olympian Jupiter)

A frontispiece with an imagined depiction of the statue of Zeus which once stood at Olympia.
Date:
1815
Image Credit:
Royal Academy of Art

Greek Contracted Vowel Stem Nouns ω-Declension

Paradigm of Greek Contracted Vowel Stem Nouns ω-Declension
Subject:
Ancient Greek, Vowel Stem, Contracted, Nouns, Ω- Declension

Greek Contracted Vowel Stem Adjectives ω-Declension

Paradigm of Greek Contracted Vowel Stem Adjectives ω-Declension
Subject:
Ancient Greek, Vowel Stem, Adjectives, Contracted, Ω- Declension

Babylonian Talent

metal lion
Date:
8th or 9th century
Image Credit:
British Museum

Laurentianus gr. 32.16-an image showing text relevant to line 145

220 r. of Plut.32.16
Agent:
PH
Date:
2024

The Argonauts approach Scylla and Charybdis and the Wandering Rocks

Disaster on the horizon-the Argo, approaches Scylla and Charybdis and the Wandering Rocks
Agent:
PH

The Argonauts host the sail to catch the wind.

The Argonauts get under way.
Date:
2024

Dolphin Nereides assisting a 'modern' looking Argo

Argo and the Wandering Rocks
Date:
2023/12/20

Hera commands Iris to fetch the goddess Thetis and to quieten the anvils of Hephaestus

Iris is full flight
Agent:
PH
Date:
2023/12/08

Circe admonishes her niece, Medea, and her companion, Jason, after the murder of Apsyrtus.

Medea and Jason at the feet of Circe, suppliants after the murder of Apsyrtus
Agent:
(1027)
Date:
2023/12/08

Argonauts' voyage across Europe

The Argonauts' route. as they cross the waterways of Europe
Date:
2023/12/08
Image Credit:
RAH

Jason and the Argonauts, together with Medea, arrive at the Grove of Ares where Aietes has hung the Fleece on an oak tree.

Jason,Medea and the Argonauts arriving at the Grove of Ares.
Date:
01/12/23
Image Credit:
PH

Jason leaps from the Argo to rescue Medea, waiting on the bank of the Phasis.

Medea meets Jason on the banks of the Phasis
Date:
01/12/23

Medea flees from Aietes' Palace by night

Medea flees from Aietes' Palace by night, escaping the attention of the guards.
Agent:
PH
Date:
01.12.23
Image Credit:
PH

Map of the Dingle with Brandon Creek and Mount Brandon (upper left)

a map of the Dingle Penninsula

map of Donegal with Donegal Bay and Rathlin O'Birne

map of Donegal with Donegal Bay and Rathlin O'Birne

map of Donegal, with Ballyshannon in the far south

a map of Donegal, showing Ballyshannon in the far south