The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolors and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes, people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running archaeological projects in Greece. This volume brings these illustrations out of the storage drawers and assembles in color a representative sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong's contributions. Along the way, the book tells the story of the Agora excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship. It includes essays by 15 scholars currently working at the Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are studying, from Neolithic pottery to the Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon.
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John K. Papadopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Classics and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
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ivory pyxides, pivoted multiple brush, beaked jug, kalos names, preserved height, eaves tile, archaeological illustration, polychrome ware, stirrup jars, upper fill, pouring vessel, many watercolors, animal friezes, excavation house, lower fill, figured scene, estimated diameter, chamber tomb Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piet de Jong, Athenian Agora, Agora Excavations, Late Geometric, Early Iron Age, Late Helladic, Stoa of Attalos, Leslie Shear, Bronze Age, Kolonos Agoraios, Middle Geometric, Palace of Nestor, Eva Brann, American School of Classical Studies, Church of Saint Spyridon, Lucy Talcott, Ram Jug Painter, Rectangular Rock-cut Shaft, Temple of Ares, University of Cincinnati, Middle Protoattic, West Slope, British School, Carl Blegen, Late Roman New!
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ivory pyxides, pivoted multiple brush, beaked jug, kalos names, preserved height, eaves tile, archaeological illustration, polychrome ware, stirrup jars, upper fill, pouring vessel, many watercolors, animal friezes, excavation house, lower fill, figured scene, estimated diameter, chamber tomb Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piet de Jong, Athenian Agora, Agora Excavations, Late Geometric, Early Iron Age, Late Helladic, Stoa of Attalos, Leslie Shear, Bronze Age, Kolonos Agoraios, Middle Geometric, Palace of Nestor, Eva Brann, American School of Classical Studies, Church of Saint Spyridon, Lucy Talcott, Ram Jug Painter, Rectangular Rock-cut Shaft, Temple of Ares, University of Cincinnati, Middle Protoattic, West Slope, British School, Carl Blegen, Late Roman New!
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- The Iron Age by Francis Brett Young on 6 pages
- The Church of the Holy Apostles (Athenian Agora) by Alison Frantz on page 286, page 287, and page 290
- Faces of Archaeology in Greece: Caricatures by Piet De Jong by Rachel Hood in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Byzantine Heroic Poetry by David Ricks in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Greek Pottery (Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain) by Arthur Lane in Back Matter
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