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The Ancient Athenian Agora

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The Athenian Agora

Neolithic marble statuette of a reclining woman. 4th millenium BC
Ivory pyxis with carved scene of griffons attacking stags. 15th cent. BC
Wine cooler. When the jug was placed in cold water the tubes permitted the water to circulate and so to speed cooling.
Chest and lid with model graneries.
Shallow two handled cup
Perfume/Oil flask. 3rd cent. AD
Neck of hydria dipicting ten dancing women. 700 - 675 BC
Fragment of amphora dipicting a cock. 650 BC
Bronze head of Victory (Nike) 420 - 415 BC

The eyes, topknot of hair and ear-rings were made separately and have vanished
Ostraka for ostracism. 5th cent. BC
Ostraka prepared for the ostracism of Themistodes. 482 BC
Black glazed medicine bottles perhaps used to hold hemlock employed in executions. 5th cent. BC
Kylix by the Chairias Painter illustrating a Maenad. 510 - 500 BC
Kylix by the Chairias Painter illustrating a woman kneeling at an alter. 510 - 500 BC
Black glazed pyxis depicting a male head (450 - 425 BC) and a chest. 420 - 400 BC
Female head, Warrior head and Dionysos' head. 400 BC
Perfume flask. 3rd cent. AD
Ivory statuette of Apollo Lykeios. 3rd cent. AD
Antoninus Pius. 138 - 161 AD
Stoa colonade
Looking back along the remaining colomns of the middle stoa towards the stoa of Attalos


Detail of Hadrian
Omphalos (navel) stone had the ability to allow direct communication with the gods.
Temple of Hephastos