American School of Classical Studies at Athens

A bilingual (Latin and Greek) grave monument. 1st c. A.D.

A dedicatory plaque, likely to ΗΡΩΙ ΙΑΤΡΩΙ, the Hero Physician, or Asclepius.

A fragment of an altar, likely dedicated to the Roman emperor Augustus.

A fragment from a marble lekythos, inscribed with a name above the left figure. 4th c. B.C.

An inscription of Athenian Councillors (inscribed: ΠΡΥΤΆ[ΝΕΙ]Σ, from πρύτανις, πρυτάνεως, ὁ) during the 2nd century B.C.

A statue base for Archippe, set up by her mother. The base was found in a Byzantine wall, but was possibly originally erected at the Eleusinion.

A fragment of the record of the sale of property confiscated from those who profaned the Mysteries and mutilated the Herms. 414/3 B.C. This was a massive scandal that occured on the eve of Athens' Sicilian expedition. At least in hindsight and perhaps at the time, this was seen as a bad omen for the expedition's outcome, which did end in disaster for Athens. Among those implicated in the scandal were Critias, the Socratic philosopher and one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens during the 405-404 democratic collapse, and the Athenian populist demogogue Alkibiades, himself a strong proponent of the aforementioned expedition.

An inscribed fragment of a Herm. The head is missing, but traces of a beard and philosopher’s cloak remain. Two epigrams are inscribed in honor of Iamblichos, a philosopher and benefactor of Athens. 4th c. A.D.

A fragment of a small votive plaque to Zeus Hypsistos. The Hypsistarians were a cult that seems to have existed from the early 2nd through to the late 4th or early 5th century AD. Much of the archaeological evidence for this cult is small votives such as this one.

A base for a statue of a Roman emperor found in a Turkish tomb at the ancient site of the Athenian agora. The inscription reads "ΚΑΙΣΑΡ," from Καῖσαρ, καίσαρος, ὁ, Caesar, but more generally emperor.