Palácio Nacional de Sintra

White palace with two conical towers and some trees
Agent:
Matthieu
Date:
2015
Image Credit:
Flickr user Matthieu
Subject:
Luisa Sigaea

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