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.
Fragmented sherds; Geometric to Protoattic. Note the Geometric opatterns and animals giving way to set scenes; assigned letters in published figure no. 86.
Sherds. A-D: Neolithic; E-K: Early Helladic; L-O: Middle Helladic grey Minyan; Q-U Middle Helladic matt-painted; the letter assignments are found in the published figure no. 23. Sherd in bottom right corner preserves the feet of a bird.
Fragments of skyphoi (shape no. 3) decorated with horizontal designs. Top row: zig-zags. Middle 3 left: running dog pattern; middle 2 right: eyelets; bottom: loop and scales. LH III.
A-B: Mycenaean; C-F: post-Mycenaean fully glazed cups; J-M: concentric circle designs; N: skyphos; O: pitcher; P-T: late Geometric oinochoe; assigned letter found in published figure no. 85. The compass point on H indicates Geometric not Mycenaean.
A: Early fine pestle; B-C: conicaltrachyte pestles; D-F: opsidian flakew and core; H: marble; J-K: feldspar black stone; letters assigned on published figure no. 96. Often unwrought stones used as pestles, distinguishable from pebbles from their worn edge
Left: one-handled cup with off-set rim and flat base. Right: a later and taller development of the same cup. Middle: smaller cup variation of the same type; increased use of black glaze and fewer designs.
Fragments of squat jars (A-K) with decoration of half-circles, hooks, cross-hatched triangles on the shoulder mainly (shape no. 17). Fragments of rhytons (shape no. 18) are the two fragments (L-M) on the bottom right corner. LH III.
LH II kylikes, shape no. 7 (a-d, top row) with horizontal bands, shape like Ephyrean gablet. LH III kylikes shape no. 7 (e-m, all the rest) same decoration yet with taller stem. LH II-III.
