Athenian Agora Excavations - Publications, excavation reports, excavation notebooks, contexts, objects, plans and drawings, and photos from the Agora
Corinth Excavations - Publications, excavation reports, excavation notebooks, contexts, objects, plans and drawings, and photos from Ancient Corinth
Alison Frantz Photos - Images by photographer and archaeologist Alison Frantz (1903-1995) depicting Archaic and Classical sculpture, Greek archaeological sites and various finds. The collection was created between the late 1940’s – early 1970’s.
Dorothy Burr Thompson Photos - Images from Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900–2001), excavator and leading expert in ancient terracottas. The collection covers the period 1923-1955, and includes images from her travels in Greece, Turkey and Italy. In addition to the archaeological information, the collection is a mosaic of information about architecture, landscapes and customs that no longer exist.
Archaeological Photos - Documents the field activities of the American School from its establishment in 1881 until WW II, with valuable and rare images recording restoration of the Erechtheum on the Acropolis in the early 20th c., the identification of the Choregic Monument of Nikias on the South Slope of the Acropolis, the discovery of the Sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite on the North Slope of the Acropolis in the 1930’s, the excavations at the site of Dionysus in northern Attica, the restoration of the Lion of Amphipolis, and general views of Athens.
Historical Photos - Various photographs from the archives in the Gennadius Library documenting moments of Greek history, from the late 19th to the early 20th century. Photos are collected from the Dragoumis family, the papers of Athanasios Souliotis, Nikolaos Mavris and others, as well as from the papers of author Stratis Myrivilis who fought in the Balkan Wars and the Greek-Turkish War (1919-1922).
Ion Dragoumis Letters - Letters of diplomat and Greek Parliament member Ion St. Dragoumis, covering the period 1895-1920. The Macedonian struggle, the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, the Greek language and the use of the Demotic, are some of the issues that appear in Dragoumis’ correspondence.
Left: female figurine; missing head, right shoulder, upper arm; Archaic type. Middle: female figurine; heavy, flat figure; type of first half of 5th century B.C. Right: female figurine; garment without folds; late archaic type. Found above Poros pavement.
First left: female figurine; unusually long neck; late 5th-early 4th centuries type. Middle: female figurine; probably a goddess; beginning of third quarter of 5th century B.C. Right: female figurine; typical of early Tanagra period; late 4th-early 3rd ce
Left: female figurine; face of very full round type; kalathos on head; unknown date. Centre: female figurine; not published. Right: female figurine; full oval face, head slightly turned right; import(?). Found above Poros pavement.
Upper: piece of hair and stephane of a female statue; hair in narrow parallel waves over forehead; found outside the temple area in an unstratified deposit. Lower: Gorgoneion fragment; perhaps part of breast plate from large terracotta statuette of Athena
Head of a sphinx; traces of burning; broken off at back, at top of head, just before edge of hair, below throat; most of nose and all of mouth missing; eyes large with pupils in black parat; probably of Corithian manufacture. Found in second temple area.
Upper: toe fragment; outer edge preserved. Lower: fragment of head; part of neck, cheek, hair and complete ear; beginning of polos above ear; Corinthian manufacture; found in second temple area.
Part of neck and breast from a sphinx; at left a bit of hair preserved, at bottom left are a few scales, wears necklace. Corinthian manufacture. Found in second temple area.
