[Agora Object] S 2110: Draped Female Figure Fragment

Female seated on throne with drapery drawn across lap and hanging down left side. Good work. Pentelic marble. ADDENDA. No traces of running drill. Ca. 400? (AS) Finished Mint, Room D, Wall T. 1276 Leica ... 9 July 1959 ... No traces of running drill. Ca. 400?

[Agora 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 ... At the front, this elaborate drapery shows the free use of a running drill, and of a heavy rasp; at the back it is worked in shallow folds, hardly more than blocked out.

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 203, p. 184

Peleus and Thetis. Repairs to sculpture in antiquity. Peplos in archaistic sculpture. Perirrhanteria in the form of archaistic korai. Retrograde inscriptions. Persephone. Re-use of sculpture in antiquity ... Agora 11 184 ... Running drill

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Athenian Army

http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_athenian_army.html

The Athenian Army From the very beginning, the Athenians were compelled to fight for their new democracy. Their dramatic victories over the Boiotians and Chalkidians in 506 B.C. led many to attribute Athenian ... The Roundabout Painter was named for this vase, which shows three warriors and a trumpeter running around the body of the jug. ... Citizens received military training during their service as ephebes from age 18 to 20: The people elect two athletic trainers and instructors for them, to teach them their drill as heavy-armed soldiers and to use the bow, javelin, and sling ... They go on in this mode of life for the first year; in the following year an assembly is held in the theater, and the ephebes give a display of drill before the people and receive a shield and spear from the state and they then serve on patrols in the country and are quartered at the guard-posts.