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.
Five animal figurines.The clay is of normal yellow hue, tinged with red, common to Athenian-made figurines, and this is covered in nearly every case by a fine buff-colored slip of clay on which the decoration in lustrous red and brown paint is applied. A
Heads of Archaic figurines. Top and bottom heads: Daidalid type, early Archaic period. Left and right heads: represent goddesses with hollow poloi crowning their oval faces. Developed Archaic style.
Seven Mycenaean figurines. Human figures fall into two common types. One - with high, concave headdress, pinched-out nose, upraised, wing-like arms spreading from the sides of a flat torso, and a cylindrical stem resting on a flaring, slightly concave foo
Unglazed askos mended from many pieces, partly restored. Buff clay. False ring foot, and concave handle, angled shoulder, a mouth with a spreading lip. A similar askos has been found in the Agora at Athens. Second half of the 5th century B.C.(?)
Fragment of red-Figured kylix. I, Herakles and the Hydra; A and B, Sacrifice in honor of the child Dionysos (Acropolis II 325) Ca. 480 B.C. or shortly after. The cup attributed to Makron by Beazley.
Top left: Fragment of red-figured calyx krater. A, Apollo Citharoedus; B, Athena mounting quadriga (Acropolis II 742). Fragment from the rim. Part of the upper border of lotus and palmette. Before 480 B.C. Assigned to Berlin Painter by Beazley. Center:
Attic red-figured sherds, kylikes and kotyles. Top Left: Fragment from the center of a kylikos. Herakles stringing his bow. The front part of his face is preserved showing the upper jaw of the lion skin on his forehead. At the top, a bit of a circle; at
Two fragments of white ground lekythos of red figured shape. Larger piece is mended from two fragments. A quadriga race. Meaningless inscriptions in the field. Small piece shows the wheel of the second(?) chariot, with a small part of the car and the hin
Left: Same as AK 0986. Right, left: Fragment from the thickest part of the side where it joins with the neck (from a jug?). Athena, a woman, and Hermes: the Judgment of Paris. The upper part of the heads of Athena (helmet, spear) and the woman (bud-tiped
Developed black-figured sherds. Top left: Small fragment of the side of a dinos. Quadriga running to the right. All outlines are incised. Ca. 560 B.C. Top center: Men on horses. The heads of two men face right, that of the third man faces them. In front
Black-figured sherds. Top left: Proto-Attic fragment of the rim (Acropolis I 369 a-b). The tail and the rump of a feline right; above, three hanging spirals. Orientalizing style. 675-640 B.C. Top middle: Fragment of lid (Acropolis I 467 and I 538). Abov
