[Agora Object] A 940: Antefix: Plastic and Inscribed

Broken at back, and top chipped. Relief palmettes above grooved volutes, letter in relief below, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ. Coarse red clay; light slip. Cistern, Strosis IV. 1422, 1803 Leica ... 16-17 June 1938 ... Relief palmettes above grooved volutes, letter in relief below, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ.

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[Agora Object] P 31501: Black Glaze Mug Fragment: Pheidias Shape

Single fragment of rim and upper body. Ribbed body with stamped motifs. Volutes of palmettes are visible at right, indistinct motif at left. Perhaps same palmettes as P 31499. Jewelling(?) between tops ... 27 June-5 August 1972 ... Ribbed body with stamped motifs. Volutes of palmettes are visible at right, indistinct motif at left. Perhaps same palmettes as P 31499.

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[Agora Object] S 3454: Akanthos Stele of Menestratides: Inscribed

Broken off below. Sides are smooth with no traces of tool marks. Back rough-picked. Separating the shaft and anthemion is an inscribed fascia with a beveled soffit: Carved in moderate relief in a shallow ... 13 December 1994 ... Separating the shaft and anthemion is an inscribed fascia with a beveled soffit: Carved in moderate relief in a shallow shell is a split palmette composed of two six-leaved half-palmettes with a four-petaled flower between them, which spring, along with their volutes, from thick cauliculae. ... Ten-leaved half-palmettes with volutes flank the central split palmette, springing from the same akanthos calyx.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 782

Two non-joining fragments; profile complete. Low ring foot. Plain rim rounded on top; raised ridge on wall outside. Decoration inside: central palmette, six linked palmettes, enclosed ovules, linked palmettes, ... 430-420 B.C ... Decoration inside: central palmette, six linked palmettes, enclosed ovules, linked palmettes, enclosed palmette chain, using the volutes only.

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[Agora Object] A 3345: Capital: Ionic

Echinus carved with three egg and dart and palmettes at sides. Eyes of volutes carved with eight-petal rosettes around center eye. Volute over echinus carved with lotus rising from two spirals with seven-petalled ... 29 August 1961 ... Echinus carved with three egg and dart and palmettes at sides. Eyes of volutes carved with eight-petal rosettes around center eye.

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[Agora Object] P 23815: Red Figure Panathenaic Amphora Fragment

Part of shoulder and neck, with both handles; nothing of rim preserved. Fragment of a neck amphora, probably Panathenaic shape. Short thick handles springing from moulded ridge around middle of neck. ... 9 April 1954 ... Below handles, double palmettes with volutes.

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[Agora Object] A 1595: Capital: Ionic

Lower edges of volutes broken away, otherwise in good condition and fresh. Note in place of eggs a cyma reversa and above this a taenia with fainted maeander. The crowning molding is an ovolo. The eyes ... May 1950 ... Lower edges of volutes broken away, otherwise in good condition and fresh. ... The angles of the volutes are filled with partial palmettes of which the petals are painted. Abundant stains left by painted ornament, leaf pattern on cyma reversa, maeander on fillet, egg and dart on ovolo, petals on palmettes. Note also three concentric circles on eyes of volutes.

[Agora Object] P 23827: Red Figure Skyphos Fragment

Several joining fragments from bottom and lower wall. Beneath the handles, half palmettes with volutes to either side. A little preserved of both figured scenes. On one side, a pair of feet left, then ... 9-10 April 1954 ... Beneath the handles, half palmettes with volutes to either side.