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.
Restored red-figured calyx krater. [Acropolis II 727]. A: Combat; B: Horsemen and a youth. Below, A, Ithyphallic silen; B, youth reclining. Ca. 500 B.C. By the Nikoxenos painter.
Prehistoric storage jars sherds.Pithoi pieces decorated with simple stamped and incised patterns. The commonest are variations of the rope pattern, made with a plastic horizontal band which has slanting impressions of a finger (thumb) or of some blunt ins
Prehistoric household ware. Top Left: a lid with a handle extending across it. Other top row fragments: bases of open shallow bowls of varying side. Bases of such bowls are flat, their sides are fairly perpendicular. Some of the bowls are so carelessly
Late Helladic III ware. The patterns were put on in a good red or black (frequently dark brown) paint, which was applied thinly and evenly. The well known decorative motives appear, in panels or zones, set off by a group of vertical lines. The spiral in
Late Helladic I and II ware. The LH I sherds are wheelmade and of excellent fabric. The clay is finely sifted. The sherds are well baked, thin and hard, the surface finely smoothed. It is covered with a slip, usually of the same color as the clay. The
Late Helladic Yellow Minyan ware. The sherds of this group illustrate every grade of quality and workmanship. The clay is fine and well levigated, the surface polished. The color varies in shade from yellow to brown, bu the great bulk of it is pinkish b
Middle Helladic mattpainted ware. Left: a high-necked jar of a rare variety mattpainted with the decoration in white matt on a dark ground. The clay is gritty, fired red on the edges and dark gray to black at the core. The surface varies from red to bla
