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| Chunk of pumice with rounded edges; no clear indications that piece had been worked or used.
Low density pumice is quite porous and stained by iron at one edge.
Porous pumice.
ADDENDA Larger chunk (two ... 11 May 1971 |
| Trapezoidal fragment of a marble strip, broken at both ends.
Carved on one face with a leafy rinceau: a four-petalled flower and part of another, surrounded by tendrils-champlevé. Tendrils intrude into ... 23 July 1999 |
| In low relief on front, Hermes, his head in profile to the left, his body facing front: head, shoulders, and part of left arm with caduceus preserved. He wears a chlamys. The background is picked, except ... 12 May 1933 |
| Badly damaged; head missing.
The figure stands with the weight on the right leg.
Unfinished; a good part of the marble to his right has not been cut away. Chisel marks clearly visible.
White marble ... 2 February 1934 |
| Rectangular block, from small herm, plain finished, one end flanged for setting into a socket where it was fastened with a pin. A deep hole in the upper (or lower) face.
Pentelic marble. 4th. c. B.C. filling ... 4th. c. B.C. |
| Broken at level of mouth. Back broken away. Battered (locks on proper left side gone).
From copy of the Pergamon Alcamenes herm type.
Weathering probably more modern than ancient.
Pentelic marble. From ... January 1955 |
| One-half preserved.
Flat smooth finished bottom with groove around edge. Flat topped rim with two lugs preserved. Outside and inside left very rough picked. Floral ornament incised on one part of rim ... 11 April 1952 |
| Broken at left and bottom. Back worn down. Surface badly chipped, especially heads of figures.
At left sits Athena, somewhat elevated, resting her chin on her left hand. Left elbow supported by left knee, ... 21 June 1972 |
| Lower left corner missing.
Asklepios and Hygeia stand side by side within naiskos, facing out.
Asklepios is on the left, leaning on a staff, which rests under his right arm. His right hand and wrist were ... 14 July 1972 |
| Moulded base only preserved. On outside and undersurface, scraped bands colored with miltos.
Inscribed on concave undersurface:
Good black glaze, inside and out. .to 1.75m. below lip of cistern Cistern ... 20 February 1932 |
| Base fragment of large proto-Attic pot. Possibly a sixth of the circumference of the base preserved. Very heavy walls, flaring and rather thicker at the lower edge. From the resting surface it slopes inward, ... 26 May 1933 |
| Inscribed.
Broken at one end. Surface highly polished.
Tool is rectangular in section, sharpened to point (probably repeatedly) at preserved end. Light incised lines separate letters.
Reverse has several ... 3 August 1968 |
| Mother of the Gods, seated with a lion in her lap, in a naiskos.
Unfinished, roughly blocked out.
Pentelic marble Cistern, 11th century A.D. fill. Leica,7-362, 85-463, 96-76-25 ... 12 June 1937 |
| A prismatic-shaped piece of abrasive stone, perhaps used to rub down or polish marble.
Sandstone.
ADDENDA Identified as "TPOXOΣ", and as being sandstone by A. Georgiades.
Cf. H.S.R. "Notes on Agora Stone-Worker's ... 1 April 1949 |
| Broken at all edges. Reused.
On one side the background has been picked away to depth of about 0.006m. around the outline of a head in profile, which is short-haired and beardless, the features only slightly ... 12 March 1932 |
| Rough-picked at back and all four edges, as though cut down and reused from a larger piece. Face of Artemis broken away.
Artemis, facing out but moving left, wears chiton with overfold and thick, twisted ... 7 August 1970 |
| Small head, of archaic appearance, broken off at neck. Battered at forehead, surface much worn.
Parian marble. Finished Disturbed early fill over channel. 2360 Leica, LXXVII-16, LXXVII-17, LXVII-18 ... 6th or early 5th c. B.C. |
| Left hand missing, and part of right braid.
The Mother sits on a throne, wearing a low polos and a girded chiton. Her cloak is carried across her lap from right to left, and hangs down beside her left ... 24 April 1936 |
| Small unfinished statuette. Back and sides of seat present smoothed; unfinished surfaces showing tool marks, perhaps quarry surfaces.
The under surface is cut away leaving in the center a rough projection ... 8 March 1932 |
| Broken at neck. Head intact except for tip of nose and chips and wear on hair. Fault in marble near top of head.
Portrait of middle-aged man with bushy beard and masses of curly hair on head and neck, ... 31 July 1970 |
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