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[Agora Object] ST 498: Seal

Intact. In shape of Minoan shield. Pierced horizontally, with boss on upper surface and four regular circular depressions on under side. Hard black stone; steatite (?). Mycenean Chamber Tomb at North Side ... 7 May 1951

[Agora Object] ST 499: Bead or Button

Intact. Typical "spindle-whorl" shape: truncated conoid; lopsided outline. Somewhat scratched and worn; rather rough. Steatite. Mycenean Chamber Tomb at North Side of Temple of Ares. 1475, 1489 ff. Leica, ... 9 May 1951

[Agora Object] ST 501: Two Arrow Heads

One barb of arrow head a), chipped. Long and tapering, fairly thin; roughly flaked, but very sharp points. No tang; curved barbs; unpierced but with rounded socket for shaft. No trace of median rib. The ... 9 May 1951

[Agora Object] ST 502: Two Arrow Heads

Almost identical in dimension and proportion. Both intact. Wider in proportion to lengh than ST 501, with sharply tapering points and curved barbs. No tang, short barbs. Suggestion of median rib, but may ... 9 May 1951

[Agora Object] ST 505: Basin Fragment

A small deep basin, roughly cut from an irregular triangular piece of hard yellow poros. On bottom, several concentric circles. Northeast of Circular Building; loose fill with working chips. Second box ... 29 May 1951

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[Agora Object] ST 506: Bead

Intact. Shield-shaped, lentoid. Pierced vertically. Similar to ST 498 (H 676), but without the four depressions which on that suggest a seal stone. Black steatite. Addenda 2025: Bluish black (GLEY 2 2.5/5PB) ... 24-25 May 1951

[Agora Object] ST 507: Disc

Roughly made disc, tapering to a sharp edge around most of the circumference. Grayish-white marble with greenish veins. ADDENDA The only disk of this shape (i.e. with taper toward edge) found in this ... 23 April 1951

[Agora Object] ST 508: Disc

Thick disc, roughly made, of stone shaped like section of cylinder. ADDENDA Another such disc, smaller, left in box no. 167. Well A (Double Well by East entrance of Square Building), box 13. 2387 Leica ... 26 April 1951