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Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is
a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide
and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the
Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora - the terrace, the
ground-floor colonnade, and the newly opened upper story. The guide
also discusses each case in the museum gallery chronologically,
beginning with the prehistoric and continuing with the Geometric,
Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
Hundreds of artifacts, ranging from common pottery to elite jewelry
held in 81 cases, are described and illustrated in color for the
very first time. Through focus boxes, readers can learn about
marble-working, early burial practices, pottery production,
ostracism, home life, and the wells that dotted the ancient site. A
timeline, maps, and plans accompany the text. For those who wish to
learn more about what they see in the museum, a list of further
reading follows each entry.
In 2006, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
celebrates seventy five years of archaeological work in the
Athenian Agora, the civic center of classical Athens. Since the
first trench was dug on May 25th 1931, excavations have continued
in a series of yearly campaigns, only briefly interrupted by the
Second World War. The impact of the discoveries made on our
understanding of Athenian history and topography is
well-documented, but relatively little has been published about the
fascinating history of the Agora excavations from the clearing of
one of the most densely settled areas of Ottoman Athens at the
start of the enterprise to the reconstruction of the Stoa of
Attalos twenty five years later to house the finds. This book fills
that gap, presenting a pictorial history of the project illustrated
with many archival photographs. Rather than taking a simple
chronological approach, the authors focus on some of the greatest
contributions of the American School's work, such as the
reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Apostles from 1954-1956
and the painstaking work involved in re-building the Stoa. are a
number of maps and diagrams placing the images in context.
In 2006, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
celebrates seventy five years of archaeological work in the
Athenian Agora, the civic center of classical Athens. Since the
first trench was dug on May 25th 1931, excavations have continued
in a series of yearly campaigns, only briefly interrupted by the
Second World War. The impact of the discoveries made on our
understanding of Athenian history and topography is
well-documented, but relatively little has been published about the
fascinating history of the Agora excavations from the clearing of
one of the most densely settled areas of Ottoman Athens at the
start of the enterprise to the reconstruction of the Stoa of
Attalos twenty five years later to house the finds. This book fills
that gap, presenting a pictorial history of the project illustrated
with many archival photographs. Rather than taking a simple
chronological approach, the authors focus on some of the greatest
contributions of the American School's work, such as the
reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Apostles from 1954-1956
and the painstaking work involved in re-building the Stoa. Each
section of photographs is preceded by an introductory text, and
there are a number of maps and diagrams placing the images in
context. In modern Greek.
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