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[Agora Image] 2012.56.0808 (83-91)

Six stone cannon balls found in the "Heliaia" (now identified as the Aiakeion) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1961

[Agora Object] ST 707: Catapult Ball

Complete; coarsely worked. Breccia. Cf. ST 703-705, 708. Southwest corner of peristyle of Heliaia, with industrial waste of early Roman date. 3957 Leica, 83-91 ... 28 July 1961

[Agora Object] ST 708: Catapult Ball

Complete; coarsely worked. Breccia. Cf. ST 703-705, 707. Southwest corner of peristyle of Heliaia, with industrial waste of early Roman date. 3957 Leica, 83-91 ... 28 July 1961

[Agora Object] ST 706: Catapult Ball Fragment

One half of ball remains. Coarse conglomerate, roughly worked. Cf. ST 703-705. From plundered trench of inner, earlier peristyle of Heliaia; context as late as of 1st. century B.C. 3961 Leica, 83-91 ... 28 July 1961