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[Agora Object] I 6696: Decree Fragment

Inscribed fragment of top of stele. Pedimental top almost intact. Shaft broken clean below; back worn smooth by traffic. Archonship of Lysitheides; stoichedon. White marble with bluish veins. Found in ... 246/5 B.C ... Found in digging a hole for a tree at a point 1.50m. west of the Great Drain, 11.00m. south of the north end of the Metroon, lying in loose earth just below present surface.

[Agora Object] A 681: Water Pipe Section

Appears to have fallen into the drain from above, after the drain was filled up. Hence need not to be contemporary. Most of lip gone at one end. Simple tongue joint; broad shallow corrugation, more marked ... May-June 1936

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[Agora Object] A 164: Roof Tile Fragment: Stamped

Preserved along one side, which has a raised edge nearly to one end. Other edges broken. Coarse brick red clay, with buff slip (?). Near the edge, the mark of the paw of an animal, made in the soft clay ... 3 April 1933

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[Agora Object] L 3918: Lamp: Inscribed

Handle missing; end of nozzle broken off. Ribs on upper body and a small rough unpierced lug; small slightly depressed top; simulated ring foot. Inscribed on line of shoulder, either side of nozzle: "ΙΕΡΟΣ ... 12 June 1939 ... Handle missing; end of nozzle broken off. ... Hellenistic fill beneath Channel A, north of Martyr II; clearing Great Drain.

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[Agora Object] A 3649: Basin

Joining fragment on one upper corner. Rim missing though part of a channel preserved at one end. Apparently worked down through periods of reuse. Sides straight flaring out at top. Anathyrosis on two edges ... July 1967 ... Rim missing though part of a channel preserved at one end. Apparently worked down through periods of reuse. ... Lifted from north face of the Great Drain where it passes through the East Building Terrace.

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[Agora Object] S 1276: Fragments of a) Grave Relief with Male Figure and Dog, b) Dog's Head in Relief, c) Kouros

Three fragments: a) Broken above and at right, perhaps also below. Left side smooth. Back badly pitted by cesspool acids, but probably nearly original. Preserved bottom similarly pitted; may or may not ... a) (Θ 1928) ca. 530-525 B.C., b) (Ε 626) last quarter of 6th c. B.C., c) ca. 600-590 B.C ... Fragment c) has no Section number. a) (Θ 1928) 2/ΙΘ a) (Θ 1928) I 12 b) (Ε 626) I 11 c) I 11 Previously Upper Colonnade-North End ... a) (Θ 1928) North side of Turkish cesspool, in ancient fill at level of ancient strosis; back of relief towards cesspool. b) (Ε 626) Found in marble dump east of S.E. corner of Eponymous Heroes. c) Found in marble pile on west bank of Great Drain in front of Tholos.