[Image] 2012.84.0374 (98-15-23)

Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building ... AMS Cf. 98-15-24 different orientation Horizontal (normal) ... 1998 ... Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building.

[Image] 2012.84.0378 (98-15-27)

Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building ... AMS Cf. 98-15-28 Horizontal (normal) ... 1998 ... Beginning of pottery deposit east of Classical Building.

[Image] 2016.01.0029

ΒΘ West. Deposit of coarse ware pottery ... In end of season preliminary report 2016, fig. 3. More report material can be found in Photography /Unworked / Projects / Excavation 2016 /Preliminary Report 2016. Horizontal (normal) ... July 2016 ... ΒΘ West. Deposit of coarse ware pottery.

[Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

http://agathe.gr/democracy/practice_of_ostracism.html

Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant. ... The procedure of ostracism was simple. ... More than 4,000 ostraka bearing Megakles' name were found in one deposit in the Kerameikos (the potters' quarter of Athens) and have been associated with the ostracism of 486 B.C., although the rude comments that accompany his name on some of these ostraka concentrate on his morals rather than on his tyrannical tendencies.