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[Object]  I 3967: Kleroterion

Broken, full width and thickness preserved. Setting tongue at bottom. Back appears to have been rough picked; worn smooth from later use. Sides smooth. Eleven rows of slots. At the left side traces of ... 1935

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[Object]  P 18555: Ostrakon of Kimon Miltiadou

Part of a roof curved cover tile, glazed black outside. Incised on exterior wall: Kιμον Μιλτιαδο Όστρακο οστρακοφορίας Κίμωνος. Acropolis Museum Temporary Exhibition (May 2010) Finished Poros enclosure, ... 25 September 1947

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[Object]  S 37: Draped Standing Female Figure

A life-size statue, the head and right arm are missing; the upper front part of the body has been cut away; the draped left arm is preserved to the lower forearm, which was separately inserted, and part ... 6 June 1931

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[Object]  S 221: Statue of Faun with Goat

Mended from over 73 fragments; apparently deliberately destroyed. Missing is body of goat and fragments from back of neck and back of right hand of faun. The faun, smiling, is holding panpipes in his ... 5 May 1932

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[Object]  S 333: Portrait Head of Male Figure

Head of an unknown, middle aged man in a skullcap. The head is broken off at the base of the neck; most of the right ear, the end of the nose and the tip of the left ear are missing. Chips gone from the ... 1st c. B.C.

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[Object]  S 335: Portrait Head of Male Figure

The head is considerably over life-size, broken off below the beard; the tip of the nose is missing, and the back of the head has a rectangular patch of hair (doweled on, with the dowel still in place) ... Early Antonine period.

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[Object]  S 339: Draped Standing Female Figure

The head, set into a rough picked socket, now missing; arms missing from elbows; the left knee and the front of the leg below it broken away; the drapery much chipped, especially at the sides. The figure, ... 4th century B.C.

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[Object]  S 347: Portrait Head of Male Figure

The nose and chin have been considerably damaged. At the base of the neck, a roughly picked tongue indicates that the head was inserted into a separate body. Head, larger than life-size, perhaps of Trajan ... Flavian period.

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[Object]  S 356: Portrait Bust of Male Figure

Missing: upper part of left ear, edges of right ear, tip of nose, left side of neck at join. Mended from two adjoining pieces. The tenon is chipped and broken. The head is preserved from top to tenon, ... 10 B.C.-20 A.D.

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[Object]  S 378: Draped Female Figure

Missing: head (which was inserted); right arm (formerly doweled on, as was right foot, traces of the rust of the arm dowel, and the actual dowel itself in the foot are still preserved); fragment from back ... 8 June 1933

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[Object]  S 462: Draped Female Figure

Mended from many pieces; the head, set in a large, rough-picked socket, is missing. Missing also are part of the upper left arm, the left hand, the right arm and shoulder, most of the back above the hips, ... 11 April 1934, 27 April 1934

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[Object]  S 473: Group of Aphrodite and Eros

Missing, the head of Aphrodite, her right arm from above the elbow, her left forearm (doweled on, dowel in place), and fragments of her drapery. The upper right arm was found broken off. The free-hanging ... 12 April 1934

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[Object]  S 654: Torso Fragment of Statue of Athena

Preserved from just below the waistline to the neck; left arm broken just below the shoulder; right arm at about 0.09m. from the shoulder. Enough of both arms is preserved to show that the right arm was ... 10 March 1936

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[Object]  S 657: Portrait Statue of Draped Standing Male ...

A life-size statue, of which head, lower part from about knees down, and hands are missing. The shoulder and upper back are damaged. The left arm is bent at the elbow, with the hand held forward; the right ... 5th c. A.D. (?).

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[Object]  S 852: Statuette of Triple Hekate (Hekataion )

Square base with moldings around the bottom. Into it is set a column (no capital, top finished off smooth), backed against which are three draped female figures, carved in high relief. Each wears a garment ... 1st-2nd c. A.D.

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[Object]  S 1214: Head and Neck Fragments of Triton

Two joining fragments. a) Lower part of neck with spring of shoulder from a bearded creature with head turned to his right. Good work; surface of marble comparatively fresh. Note spring of background on ... August 1946, 5 July 1949

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[Object]  S 1251: Relief with Eleusinian Divinities

Complete. Rectangular plaque with plain border, tenon for setting below and rough-finished back. Seven figures in low relief, left to right: draped woman (Demeter) with staff (?) in left hand and patera ... 11 June 1947

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[Object]  S 1295: Head of Herakles

Broken off across the neck; end of nose and chin chipped. Pick-marks on forehead. Head, half life-size, turned slightly to the figure's left. Hair and beard rendered in small tight bead-like curls. The ... 30 July 1947

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[Object]  S 1654: Draped Standing Female Figure: Aphrodite

The head broken off just above the base of the neck; the (raised) right arm, made separately and attached, missing, and the upper part of the cloak, held by the right arm, is broken away. Part of the left ... Middle of 2nd c. A.D.

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[Object]  S 1882: Draped Female Figure and Fragments: Aphrodite

a) Fragment showing folds of himation over left arm. Arm was inset and attached with a square dowel. b) Draped torso (?) fragment. On one face flat folds appropriate to himation on back of figure. This ... a)-c) (ΚΤΛ 375) November 1954 (Ι 1680) 1959

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[Object]  S 2038: Statue of Iliad

Lacks head, left arm, right hand, left leg in toto and right leg below knee. Standing female figure wearing cuirass, cloak and girdle, with a remnant of a sword by her right side. The surface when not ... 1869

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[Object]  S 2039: Statue of Odyssey

Lacks head, both arms and both legs. Female figure wearing cuirass, cloak and girdle. On front of cuirass in relief, Scylla; on lappets of upper row from left to right, Aiolos, three sirens, Polyphemos; ... 1869

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[Object]  S 2094: Head of Goddess

Nose and upper lip a bit battered, back of neck cut away. Wears straight stephane over wavy hair. Two iron pins and drill hole in neck. Fine work. Parian marble. LRFW (Late Roman Fortification Wall) Core, ... 30 June 1959

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[Object]  S 2452: Herm Head

Broken at neck, preserving part of socket of right arm. Tip of nose broken. Lower lip replaced, probably ancient repair during carving. Bearded. Long hair in waves from face and circulating from crown ... 17-20 August 1971

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[Object]  S 2499: Herm Head

Broken at bottom. Beard, side locks, right side of nose, left central part of curls over forehead broken away. Crack across top of head. Cutting and dowel for repair at lower back. Alcamenoid herm. Hair ... 2nd c. A.D.

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[Object]  BI 236: Ivory Statuette

Statuette of Apollo Lykaios. The head found largely complete; the body mended from over two hundred fragments. Small fragments from the torso missing; the front part of the left foot, the little finger ... 30 April 1936

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[Object]  BI 511: Carved Ivory Pyxis

Broken and split into many pieces, but largely complete; one side slightly higher than the other. A cylindrical box, tapering very slightly toward the top. The flat lid is held in place by a projecting ... 26 May 1939

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[Object]  P 2084: Klepsydra with Dipinto

Mended from two pieces, one small fragment does not join. Lower part of large pot. Flat bottom, slightly projecting. Immediately above it is a small clay spout corresponding to an opening pierced through ... 29 May 1933

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[Object]  P 9973: Ostrakon of Aristeides Lysimachou

Rim fragment from an amphora. Black glazed inside and out, reserved on top. Writing on inside: Όστρακο οστρακοφορίας Αριστείδου Δικαίου. Προέρχεται από το χείλος αμφορέα. Finished Gravelly filling beneath ... 24 April 1937

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[Object]  P 16755: Ostrakon of Perikles Xanthippou

About one-third of a black-glaze skyphos base with reserved band on exterior above foot. Flaring ring foot; space inside foot reserved. Excellent glaze, slightly worn on the resting surface. Incised on ... 24 May 1940

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[Object]  S 33: Herm as Statue Support

A herm used as support for the left arm of la large statue carrying a child. Upper half of the child is missing as well as the entire statue, whose left arm rests on the head of the herm. The base of ... 2nd c. A.D.

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[Object]  S 182: Draped Female Figure: Nereid Akroterion

A life-size female figure. Missing: head, right arm below elbow, left arm just below shoulder legs below knees. Left shoulder mended from several fragments. Island (Parian) marble. Cf. S 1852 (Η' 920), ... 5th century B.C.

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[Object]  S 370: Tripod Base with Figures in Relief

Broken at the top, and chipped on sides and bottom. The sides are concave, with roughly dressed fillets between them, in the lower part of each of these, a cutting for setting something. A bit of bronze ... 1 June 1933

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[Object]  A 772: Eaves Tile Fragments: Painted

Two non-joining fragments. On outer face an elaborate guilloche in purple and black with palmettes at the mid line. On the soffit, a band of astragal between two purple bands; on the top, along the outer ... 5 June 1937

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[Object]  B 253: Statuette : Glykon

A sea-serpent (?), coiled, with head reared. Serpent with long curly mane; hollow beneath. The creature has a human head, female. Over the face two long locks of hair hang down. Χάλκινος όφις με ανθρωποκεφαλή ... May 1935

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[Object]  B 262: Shield

Inscribed. Found largely complete, but very much bent and chipped. An oval shield with a narrow rim ornamented with a fine multiple guilloche pattern repousse. The central part of the shield was apparently ... 7 February 1936

[Object]  B 1003: Dikast's Name Plate Fragment

Broken at both ends. Inscribed. Stoa of Attalos Shop IX, South, layer III (undisturbed Stoa fill). 2843 Leica, 85-23 ... 14 June 1952

[Object]  B 1060: Ball

Small plain sphere of solid bronze. Χάλκινη σφαίρα κληρωτηρίου. Terrace, first northern extension. Metals Room 90-27 Nov. 24, 2003-April 15, 2004 2773 Leica, color slide, LXIV-34, 86-150 ... 27 November 1953

[Object]  B 1253: Blank for Bronze Coin

End of a bronze rod somewhat angular in section out by a cold chisel. Reminiscent of blanks from the mint. South Stoa II, east end , layer III. Disturbed 2nd c. B.C. context. 6641 Leica ... 18 July 1960

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[Object]  J 136: Gold Band and Leaf Fragments

a) Band. Broken at one end in the line of a round hole. The preserved end was fitted with a loop of strap gold set through the band. Band is beaded along each edge by punching from behind. b), c) Two ... 26 February 1957