[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Notebooks

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The Notebooks The process of excavating an archaeological site is essentially destructive but the irrevocable features are preserved in a notebook. The excavator records his thoughts and observations, ... An entry notes, “Contractor began the demolition of House 21, Block 631 (Section E) this morning. ... View looking north along Patousa Street. ... “By the end of the day most of the walls above the first floor of House 21 had been razed.

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Monographs

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Monographs Excavations in the civic and cultural center of classical Athens began in 1931 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Athenian Agora volumes presenting ... Chapter Three presents the groups in which most of them were found; their distribution is indicated on a plan of the excavation area. ... At the end of the 5th century, a group of public buildings was constructed, perhaps to house some of the lawcourts. ... There is a survey of the topography of the sanctuary and its environs on the North Slope of the Acropolis, and a discussion of its relationship to Eleusis and its position as a landmark within the city of Athens.