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S 922: Relief of Mother of the Gods

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

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S 1308: Head of Female Figure

About life-size. Broken at the base of the neck, and the back broken off. The nose and chin battered. Woman's head bent sharply to the left; the hair is rolled back from the face and wrapped in a kerchief ... 25 September 1947

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S 2434: Portrait Head of Male Figure

Broken at neck; nose and a large area of back of head missing. Chips missing from curls of hair. Portrait of a bearded male, wearing a wreath of maybe laurel. Furrowed brow; drilled eyeballs, looking up ... 17 July 1971

T 3055: Male Head

Grotesque bearded head with thick nose and great lentoid eyes. Gouged style. Head only preserved; the front and back parts broken apart, and mended, with chips missing at sides. Traces of red, yellowish ... 13 April 1951

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T 3521: Figurine Fragment

Primitive technique. No paint. Buff clay. ADDENDA In addition to the above there were several horse legs and parts of chariots of the same style. From sacred pit to north of Altar of Ares; from inside ... 26 February 1957

W 32: Cork from Wine-Jug

Flat on top; the sides tapering to rounded bottom. Pierced vertically. Small tip missing from one side. Found in place in the mouth of the jug P 20786 (ΣA 1158). Paraffined. Well east of Stoa Room 2; containers ... January-February 1950

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A 957: Well Head

Parts of rim and nearly a quarter of wall missing; restored in plaster. A cylindrical drum, tapering around top. Heavy rim, flat on top and sharply profiled; lower wall thickened to form heavy collar ... 28 May-16 June 1938

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A 958: Chimney Pot

Lid and about a quarter to a third of stand preserved; restored in plaster. This curious object consists of an umbrella-like cover, with a wide vertical rim which overhangs the bluntly conical stand attached ... 28 May-16 June 1938

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B 778: Sword

Broken in five pieces but complete. Heavy rib down center of blade. A raised rim around the edge of the handle to take the (wooden ?) hand-hold. One rivet for fastening on hand-hold in place, and traces ... 5, 14 May 1947

B 781: Sword

Badly corroded; the blade preserved in several pieces, but nothing of the hilt except two small pieces which appear to be the projecting ears. To one of these a gold-leaf rivet head cover of the smaller ... 14 May 1947

B 782: Cleaver

A broad curved tool, apparently more or less complete, including tongue for insertion into wooden handle. Χάλκινο ξυράφι. Finished Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. S.E. part of chamber (with other bronzes on table; ... 14 May 1947

B 1082 BIS: Official Measure

This measure is smaller than the B 1082. The tripod feet appears to have been set upside down inside the first but the corrosion is so far advanced that the two cannot be separated. Bottom and less than ... Card: ca. 400 B.C.

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B 1207: Arrowheads

When found, seven were well preserved and one was in two fragments, but removal of heavy incrustation left four with some shape, the balance in small bits. Stone-curbed pit to north of Altar of Ares. From ... April 1957

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BI 513: Ivory Pyxis

One edge of the base, three fragments of the wall, and the second handle (?) missing. Two pieces apparently from the edge of the ba se do not join. Small cylindrical box, tapering very slightly toward ... 2 June 1939

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G 549: Faience Hawk

Broken in twelve pieces. Hawk standing on flat plinth. PIerced on back for suspension. Cream colored body with slightly glossy surface, brownish and greenish in color. Stone-curbed pit to north of Altar ... 30 March 1957

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I 1024: Prytany Decree Fragment

Lower part of inscribed stele; with base. The stele is broken away at the top. It is leaded into a heavy rectangular base, of limestone, whose bottom is a plance which slopes upward toward the spectator's ... 260/59 (?) B.C.

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I 3244: Monument

Inscribed stele. Complete pedimented stele, preserved with tongue at bottom for setting into cutting. Back rough. Diaitetai record; archonship of Charikleides; a reconciliation agreement between the Salaminians ... 363/2 B.C.

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I 4120: Marble Fragment: List of Names

Inscribed fragment. Inscribed face only preserved. Archon list (?). Six lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon. Pentelic marble. Τμήμα μαρμάρινης στήλης με κατάλογο Αθηναίων Αρχόντων των ετών: ... 5th. century B.C.

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I 4266: Honorary Decree

Inscribed stele. Honorary decree of the archonship of Nikias in praise of the archon Euthios (285/4 B.C.) and his parhedroi. Forty-one lines in all preserved; stoichedon thirty-one, except line thirty-four, ... 284/3 B.C.

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I 4809: Marble Fragments: Tribute List

Inscribed fragments. Caption for tribute list, attributed to year of Alkaios. Fragment ΟΑ 115 a), inscribed face, top, and back (?) preserved. Ten lines of the inscription preserved, trace of eleventh ... 418/7 B.C.