Reconstruction of the marble-paved street and stoa of the complex east of the Stoa of Attalos, ca. A.D. 420. At left is the Gate of Athena, the entrance to the Roman Agora ... Cf. 1997.11.0010 Horizontal (normal)
Relief in a pedimented niche.
The Mother wears a polos and is seated in a chair with a footstool; patera in right hand and tympanon in left; lion in lap.
Small standing figures to her right, and to left; ... 16 May 1937
Restored plan of the Sanctuary of Ares; new tracing of original plan PD #769 by M.R. Holland published in Hesperia 28 (1959), p. 61, fig. 24 ... H. B. = PD 769a M.R. Holland=PD 769 ... New tracing by H.B. of plan by M.R. Holland. Horizontal (normal) ... 1969
Rules of the Library of Pantainos:
“No book is to be taken out because we have sworn an oath. (The library) is to be open from the first hour until the sixth.” ... Horizontal (normal)
Sculpted base for a monument celebrating a victory in the apobates at the Panathenaic
Games, 4th century B.C. As the race made its way along the Panathenaic Way, the armed passenger was expected to jump ... Cf. 2000.02.1148 Horizontal (normal)
For detailed description see H. A. Thompson's article in ArchEph (1953-1954), pp. 30-44. Catalogued 1961. Found in 1907 ca. 20.00m. south of Temple of Apollo Patroos. Transferred from National Museum, ... 1907
The area of the Agora before the start of excavations in 1931, view from the west.
Note the square by the Hephaisteion. The Church of Agia Marina in foreground ... New negative from old photo 1-102 east Horizontal (normal) ... September 1931
The north stoa of the Library of Pantainos, along the street leading to the Roman marketplace, ca. 100 A.D. Looking east toward the Gate of Athena ... Cf. 2011.04.0091. Rights = 1 (Public) east 1708 Horizontal (normal) ... August 1973
The north stoa of the Library of Pantainos, along the street leading to the Roman marketplace, ca. 100 A.D. Looking east toward the Gate of Athena ... Cf. 2008.20.0058 east 1708 Horizontal (normal) ... August 1973
The reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos in 1956, view from the north. The middle of the roof slab poured. The Acropolis in the background ... Wide angle. southeast Horizontal (normal) ... 2/4/1956
The remains of the Royal Stoa, after refilling of test trenches. At lower right is the South Annex. At upper right is the North Annex. View from the south ... Cf. 2008.20.0083 (higher resolution). north 1066 Horizontal (normal) ... 25/8/1970
The remains of the Royal Stoa, after refilling of test trenches. At lower right is the South Annex. At upper right is the North Annex. View from the south ... High resolution version of negative, cf. 1997.01.0534. Rights = 1 (Public) north 1066 Horizontal (normal) ... 25/8/1970
The remains of the house of Simon the cobbler, 5th century B.C., built against the Agora boundary stone (bottom left) ... Cf. 2000.02.0693 Horizontal (normal)
The residential-industrial district southwest of the Agora. The "Poros Building", center right, in another name given to the building tentatively identified as the State Prison. The other walls and wells ... English version. Horizontal (normal)
The “Industrial District,” southwest of the Agora. The Poros Building at the top (north) has been tentatively identified as the State Prison. The other walls and wells represent private houses dating from ... Greek version. Horizontal (normal)
Three Herm heads found at the northwest corner of the Agora (from left to right): S 2499, 2nd century A.C.; S 2452, late 5th century B.C.; S 3347, early 5th century B.C ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal)
Watercolor of the restored upper parts of the Middle Stoa, mid-2nd century B.C., showing the colors used to decorate this and most Greek buildings ... Cf. 2004.02.0101 Horizontal (normal)
Classical Athens saw the rise of an achievement unparalleled in history. Perikles, Aeschylus, Sophokles, Plato, Demosthenes, Thucydides, and Praxiteles represent just a few of the statesmen and playwrights, ...
The excavations of the Athenian Agora have uncovered about thirty acres on the sloping ground northwest of the Acropolis (Fig. 3). Material of all periods from the Late Neolithic to modern times has been ...
Numerous roads led in and out of the Agora square. By far the most important, however, was the broad street known as the Dromos or Panathenaic Way, the principal thoroughfare of the city (Fig. 4). It ...
Near the middle of the open square, somewhat to the north, lay the Altar of the Twelve Gods (Fig. 7), today largely hidden under the Athens–Piraeus railway (1891). A corner of the enclosure wall survives, ...
Lying just south of the railroad tracks, along the west side, are the remains of the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios (Freedom) (Figs. 8, 9). This cult of Zeus was established after the battle of Plataia in 479 ...
Next to the Stoa of Zeus at the south are the remains of a small temple of Apollo Patroos (Fatherly), so-called because he was the father of Ion, founder of the Ionian Greeks, a tribe that included the ...
Overlooking the Agora from the hill to the west (Kolonos Agoraios), is the Hephaisteion, the best preserved example of a Doric temple in mainland Greece (Fig. 12). It was dedicated jointly to Hephaistos ...
The south half of the west side was given over to the major administrative buildings used to run the Athenian democracy (Fig. 14). The buildings are poorly preserved, but the identifications are secure ...
Just uphill from the Tholos was the Bouleuterion, meeting place of the boule, or senate. Five hundred Athenian citizens were chosen by lot to serve for a year, and met in this building every day except ...
The Metroon served two functions; it was both a sanctuary of the Mother of the Gods and the archive building of the city, a repository of official records (Fig. 19). The present remains date to the mid-2nd ...
Across the street from the Metroon lie the remains of the Monument of the Eponymous Heroes (Fig. 21). When Kleisthenes created the democracy in 508/7 B.C., he assigned all the Athenians to ten newly-formed ...
Inscribed marble posts were used to mark the entrances to the Agora wherever a street led into the open square. Two have been found in situ, inscribed with the simple text "I am the boundary of the Agora," ...
Leaving the area of the boundary stone, one can head southwest up a valley leading toward the Pnyx, meeting place of the Athenian assembly. Here are the complex remains of a residential and commercial ...
Closer to the agora proper a row of five public buildings lined the south side of the square in the Classical period (Fig. 29, 36). They comprise several important monuments, though their state of preservation ...
Immediately to the east are the poor remains of a large square enclosure, open to the sky and measuring about 30 meters on a side. Built in the early 5th century, at the command of the oracle of Apollo ...
Measuring some 80 meters long, South Stoa I takes up much of the south side; its eastern end is the better preserved (Figs. 31, 32). It had a double colonnade, with sixteen rooms behind. It dates to ca ...
The slight traces just south of the Church of the Holy Apostles have been identified as the remains of an early fountain house (Figs. 33, 34). The identification is based on a large terracotta pipeline ...
Just east of the fountain house lie the miserable remains of a large square building with several rooms; the northern half lies under the Church of the Holy Apostles and the Southeast Temple (Early Roman) ...
The appearance of the south side of the Agora was radically changed during the 2nd century B.C. with the construction of several new buildings. This South Square, as it is called, was made up of two long ...
Running southward from the east end of the Middle Stoa is the East Building. Its eastern half takes the form of a long hall with a marble chip floor and stone slabs designed to carry wooden furniture, ...
South Stoa II ran westward from the south end of the East Building, parallel to the Middle Stoa (Figs. 38, 41). Dating to the second half of the 2nd century B.C., it consisted of a single Doric colonnade ...
East of the East Building and Mint we arrive once again at the Panathenaic Way, which in this area is lined along its eastern side by a massive wall built in the 3rd century A.D. (Fig. 42). The wall was ...
Lying partially under and behind the Late Roman wall are the remains of a building identified by its inscribed marble lintel block as the Library of Pantainos, dedicated to Athena Archegetis, the emperor ...
Lining the east side of the Agora square is the Stoa of Attalos (Fig. 47), built during the reign of Attalos II of Pergamon (159–138 B.C.), who studied in Athens under the philosopher Karneades before ...
Underlying the north end of the Stoa of Attalos are the slight remains of a group of buildings dating to the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. (Fig. 50). Largely open courtyards, they seem to have served as ...
Late in the 1st century B.C. the Athenians were given money for a new marketplace by Caesar and Augustus, and the northern half of the old Agora square was filled with two new structures, the Odeion of ...
Just north of the Odeion lie the ruins of a building identified by Pausanias as a temple of Ares (Figs. 56, 57). The foundations are of Early Roman construction and date, but the marble pieces of the ...
The area of the northwest corner is where the Panathenaic Way, leading from the main gate of Athens, the Dipylon, entered the Agora square (Figs. 58, 59). This was accordingly the appropriate place for ...
On the west side, lying just south of the Panathenaic Way, are the remains of the Royal Stoa (Stoa Basileios), one of the earliest and most important of the public buildings of Athens (Figs. 61, 62) ...
Across modern Hadrian Street are the most recent excavations (2003), along the north side of the square. Here have been revealed the remains of another large stoa, identified on the basis of Pausanias ...
Several churches were removed following the excavation of the modern neighborhoods overlying the Agora. The Church of the Holy Apostles, because of its early date, was deemed worth preserving and, indeed, ...
Some of the Agora monuments have never been fully buried and were explored by the Archaeological Society starting in the 19th century: the Stoa of Attalos (1859–1862, 1874, and 1898–1902), the Giants ...
