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B 822: Dikast's Ticket

Broken off at the right. Very thin. Inscribed in punched letters. Eνεπίγραφο δικαστικό πινάκιο. Φέρει αποκρούσεις στη μία του πλευρά. Acropolis Museum Temporary Exhibition (May 2010) House C, room 4, layer ... 13 October 1947

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B 1046: Blanks

Eleven pieces cut from a rod. One of these is the remnant of the rod, become to short for further cutting. Eight pieces are "normal", two are scraps. The cutting was done with a chisel anywhere from one ... 16 June 1953

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B 1082: Official Measure

Cylindrical. Sides slightly concave. Raised bands at top and bottom. Flat bottom with three broad shallow legs of which one missing. Inscription incised around band at top. See B 1082 BIS. Μέτρο χαλκού, ... Card: ca. 400 B.C.

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I 303: Epigram Fragments

Left corner of inscribed block. Epigram commemorating the victory over the Persians. Fragment Θ 50 a), top smooth; bottom, very fine picked; side, anathyrosis. Broken at back and right. Face dressed with ... 1933

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I 3872: Epigram

Inscribed fragment. Fragment from the base for the statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton. Inscribed face, original top, and right face preserved. Broken at left and bottom. Two lines of the inscription ... 477 B.C.

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I 5407: Dedication Fragment

Inscribed base. The full height and width of the block appear to be preserved; mouldings along top and bottom; both much battered. Six lines of the inscription preserved. Pentelic marble. Northwest corner ... 29 April 1938

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I 5509: Record

Inscribed stele. Intact, the top front edge slightly worn by traffic. The top is crowned by a simple angular moulding; the bottom 0.08m. of the front face is finished only with the toothed chisel; the ... 367/6 B.C.

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I 7167: Relief Fragments

Inscribed fragments. Mended from two pieces. Bottom and left side preserved; full thickness intact. Top broken away and right side unevenly broken. At left is square pilaster on square base. On high relief ... 17 July 1970

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IL 1361: Iron Nails

Six nails. Wide flat heads, short tangs, bent. Hobnails (?) Έξι σιδηροί ήλοι. Many more nails in containers nos. 172-173, from succesive strosis. Finished House B, strosis 5, found on floor. Dec.1, 2003- ... April 1954

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MC 1189: Token

Small chips missing. Obverse: inscribed. It has three lines of text made of an ovoid seal. Reverse: parallel striations (traces of the object-wood (?) against which it was affixed). Buff clay. Similar ... 28 July 1971

MC 1190: Token

Small chips missing. Obverse: inscribed. It has three lines of text made of an ovoid seal. Reverse: parallel striations (traces of the object-wood (?) against which it was affixed). Buff clay. Similar ... 28 July 1971

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P 1274: Red Figure Cup: Type C

Mended from many fragments; restored in plaster. About one-quarter of the rim and half of each handle missing. The medallion scene is off center from the handles and depicts a youth reclining, playing ... August-September 1932

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P 1546: Black Figure Skyphos

Mended from many fragments. The foot and the lower part of the vase, part of the handle, and many small other fragments missing. On either side, possibly the game of ΕΦΕΔΡΙΣΜΟΣ or ΕΝΚΟΤΥΛΗ. Two similar ... August-September 1932

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P 4784: Pyxis with Lid

The body mended from several fragments; the cover intact; the horses broken off but complete. a) Flat-bottomed pyxis with slightly convex side wall flanged inside the rim to receive the lid. Flange and ... 2 March 1935

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P 4990: Amphora

Mended from many pieces; about half the rim, fragments from the neck and body, and more than half the foot restored in plaster. Slender ovoid body; high ring foot; tall neck with flaring lip. Strap handles ... 16 March 1935

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P 5113: White Ground Bobbin Fragment

From a double disc: bobbin or yoyo? Nearly two-thirds of one disk preserved; broken at the left. On the disc, Helios with the solar disk on his head and a goad in his hand, rises above Mt. Hymettos in ... 12-15 March 1935

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P 5117: Black Glaze Vicup with Graffito

Parts of rim missing. Restored in plaster. Similar in shape and fabric to P 5116 (Α 1038), with a similar graffito scratched through the dry glaze in the middle of the floor, as well as on the underside ... 12-15 March 1935

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P 6836: Feeder

Complete except for a small chip from body and from lip. A small one-handled jug, with a spout protruding on the side. Five cross-hatched triangles on shoulder, solid small triangles around body. Flaring ... 28 February 1936

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P 6878: Kantharos with Graffito: West Slope

One handle missing, and fragments from body and rim. Heavy moulded ring foot; slightly bulging lower wall, nearly vertical upper wall. Vertical handle with large thumb-rest. Two wheel run grooves where ... 27-29 February, 10 March 1936

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P 9950: Ostrakon of Themistokles Neokleous

Rim fragment from a small krater, black glazed on inside and rim only. Writing on inside: Όστρακο οστρακοφορίας Θεμιστοκλέους. Προέρχεται από το χείλος μικρού μελαμβαφούς κρατήρος. Finished Cushion for ... 22 April 1937

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P 10714: Jug with Relief Decoration

Fragments of body and lip, and most of handle missing. Ring foot and round body. Narrow neck, tapering upward, and flat projecting round lip, grooved inside. Grooved band handle from below lip to shoulder, ... 12 June 1937

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P 12628: Black Figure Alabastron

Mended from many fragments. The mouth, one of the lugs and fragments of the body and bottom missing. The decoration is in horizontal zones: at the top a zone of tongues alternately black and red, then ... 30 April-2 May 1938

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P 15210: Red Figure Oinochoe

The handle missing and nearly all the lip; two small holes in the wall, and one in the floor; the base much chipped. Plump body; low very slightly flaring ring foot. In a panel bordered above and below ... 23 May 1939

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P 15358: Amphora

Mended from many pieces; fragments of mouth and body missing. Round mouth with torus lip, short neck, broad sloping shoulder. Body tapers downward to blunt point at bottom. Two vertical handles on upper ... 2 June 1939

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P 17393: Amphora Fragments

Three pieces, put together with plaster, from rim, neck and shoulder of a pot with stepped rim and thin glaze wash inside: probably a wide-mouthed amphora. Good black glaze overall; on the shoulder, a ... July 1946

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P 19249: Shoes

A pair, right and left; small bits of both shoes missing and restored. Some pieces burned some not. High shoes without tongues, to cover the ankles (and more); two eye-shaped holes for laces at each side ... 8-10, 12 April 1948

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P 23896: Red Figure Chous

Mended from several pieces. Large part of mouth and neck and smaller pieces from body missing. Handle broken and repaired in antiquity. Panel framed by a band of enclosed palmettes above, of chevrons at ... End 5th. c. B.C.

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P 24102: Red Figure Cup: Inscribed

Mended from many pieces; missing a little of the rim and floor, and chips from the tondo (woman's face). Thick disk foot. A reserved band around the tondo. Within, a naked woman, right, kneeling on her ... 1 June 1954

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P 24104: Black Figure Lekythos

Mended from many pieces; a few wall fragments missing. Torus mouth; rim flat on top; shoulder tending to be flat; moulded ring above foot; unusually moulded foot. On shoulder, thin rays and palmettes ... 1 June 1954

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P 24110: Red Figure Cup: Inscribed

Mended from four pieces. Lightly stepped foot. Reserved band around medallion. Within, two boxers, boxing with bare hands; the victor is about to strike his opponent who is falling to the ground and holds ... Ca. 500 B.C.

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P 24114: Red Figure Cup: Inscribed

Mended from several pieces; fragments missing. Thin foot strongly thickened at the edge; a groove around the upper surface. Inside, a reserved band around the tondo. Within, an ivy-crowned, bearded ithyphallic ... 4 June 1954

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P 24116: Red Figure Cup: Inscribed

Mended from many pieces; the foot missing, fragments of wall and rim, and a little of the medallion. Low stem; ring at junction with foot. Inside, within a reserved band, a maenad running right and looking ... 4 June 1954

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P 24131: Red Figure Cup

Mended from many pieces; fragments of rim and floor missing, including part of medallion. Lip offset; low thick stem with ring at junction with foot; thick disk foot, with a light groove around upper part ... 9 June 1954

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P 25957: Red Figure Column Krater Fragments

Eight non-joining fragments of which six from wall and one from handle. a) Boy left; in front of him, the head of a figure at much larger scale; edge of border above. b) Fight; leg of figure lunging ... 26 February 1957

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P 27646: Pyxis with Five Huts on Lid

Mended, virtually complete. Numerous joining fragments. Chest with cut-out legs; lid has five model "granaries" side by side. Lugs on body, corresponding to ears on top. Intricate decoration in panels; ... 15 June 1967

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S 147: Torso Fragment of Male Figure

Upper part of torso of a muscular male figure a little under life-size. Upper part of chest preserved with front starts of neck and left arm, and 0.02m. or 0.03m. of right arm. Head was inclined to lifted ... 1931

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S 362: Portrait Head of Female Figure

In fine preservation. A portrait of a middle aged woman (Faustina the Younger ?) with rather severe features and with hair parted in the center and drawn down in waves to a chignon in the back, below which ... Ca. 162-166 A.D.

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S 387: Portrait Herm

Mended from five pieces. Missing: end of nose, edge of left ear; right shoulder and back; small breaks in drapery and neck on left side, slice of hair over the right temple. The height of the bust is ... Ca. 215-225 A.D.

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S 551: Head of Female Figure

Broken away behind and at neck. Nose badly damaged; mouth, chin and eyes slightly. Female head, rather more than life-size, with hair parted at center. A little way back is a sunken band with small holes ... 9 April 1935

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S 586: Herm Portrait: Inscribed

Completely preserved except for phallus. The top of the head is flat and rough-picked, and was probably originally finished with stucco. Realistic portrait of an elderly man, the lines and folds of flesh ... Period of Hadrian