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[Agora Image] 1997.04.0096 (XVI-57)

Block from marble string course of the Tholos, upper side ... Horizontal (normal) ... May 1939

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[Agora Object] A 915: String Course Block

Broken in two large and several small pieces. The inside edge and both ends are missing. The outer face is lightly stippled with at smoothed band along top and bottom. The under surface was rough-picked ... 1938

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[Agora Publication] Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940): The Tholos of Athens and its Predecessors

Thompson, H. A ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Famous classical buildings, such as the Parthenon, are preserved in such monumental isolation that it is hard to reconstruct the effect that they might have had on the ancient visitor. Their setting relative ... 1940