Collection: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) was founded in 1881 and is the oldest and largest US overseas research institution. ASCSA Publications, based in Princeton, New Jersey, publishes the extensive Corinth and Agora monograph series, and many other volumes devoted to Hellenic studies. These works are essential reference tools for anyone interested in the archaeology and history of the Mediterranean world.
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The Athenian Agora Museum Guide
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 ope...
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The Early Iron Age
This volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the transition from the Middle Geometric to Late Geometric period.
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Roman Pottery
Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery (terra sigillata) found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. Written by the world's leading expert on Roman pottery, this huge catalogue illustrating and identifying multiple shapes and types of decoration ...
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Hellenistic Pottery: The Fine Wares
Using deposits recently excavated from the Panayia Field, this volume substantially revises the absolute chronology of Corinthian Hellenistic pottery as established by G. Roger Edwards in Corinth VII.3 (1975).
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The Agora Bone Well
Even though Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, the well and its remarkable finds have never been fully studied until now. Located outside the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter of the 2nd century B.C.
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A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos
This is the final publication of a small open-air sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Hymettos above Athens, excavated between the World Wars by Carl Blegen and Rodney Young.
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Greek Lamps and Offering Trays
This volume continues the publication of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. It incorporates two bodies of material: Greek lamps and offering trays.
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Late Classical Pottery from Ancient Corinth
In 1971 in the southwestern area of the Roman Forum of Corinth a round-bottomed drainage channel was discovered filled with the largest deposit of pottery of the 4th century ever found in the city, some coins, terracotta figurines, and metal and stone objects. This volume publishes the pottery an...
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Vrysaki
Central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition in the 1930s of the Vrysaki neighbourhood at the foot of the Acropolis, to facilitate the excavation of the ancient Agora. This book details the expropriations, as well as the history of the neighbourhood, providing a vivid recrea...
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The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory
This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III).
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The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill
Tsoungiza is a hill dominating the Nemea Valley, northwest of the citadel of Mycenae; excavations have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement at its southern end. This two-volume set presents the results of these investigations, with an unprecedented study of a small settlement's eco...
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Inscriptions: The Dedicatory Monuments
This is the last of five volumes presenting inscriptions discovered in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967. Published here are inscriptions on monuments commemorating events or victories, on statues or other representations erected to honor individuals and deities, and on votive offerings to...
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Miscellaneous Finds of Terracotta
This volume presents the terracotta miscellaneous finds from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Acrocorinth. The finds comprise 21 classes, including protomes and masks, altars, plaques, models of various personal and household items, and loomweights and other textile tools.
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Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery
This volume publishes the results of the rescue excavations along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth in 1961 and 1962. It examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town.
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The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV
The present volume outlines the architectural sequence of the EH III period at the site of the Fourth Settlement at Lerna with descriptions of the major building types and other features, such as hearths, ovens, and bothroi.
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The Monuments of the Eastern Hill (two-volume set)
In this volume, the key Athenian monuments that form the Theatral Complex, including the Theatral Circle, the Fieldstone Building, the marble Doric hexastyle Dedication of Philip III and Alexander IV, the elegant Ionic Porch, and the remains of dozens of bronze statues, are presented in their arc...
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The Art of Antiquity
The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century.
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STEGA
This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005.
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Ancient Corinth
This is the first official guidebook to the site of ancient Corinth published by the ASCSA in over 50 years, and it comes fully updated with the most current information, colour photos, maps, and plans. It is an indispensable resource for the casual tourist or professional archaeologist new to th...
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The Temple of Apollo Bassitas, the Sculpture
The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the northwest Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes. Volume II contains Brian Madigan's study of the sculptural program and Fred Cooper's analysis of the relevant parts of the entablature.
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The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains
This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954 and 1976 in several locales around the Isthmian Sanctuary and the succeeding fortifications.
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Archaeodiet in the Greek World
The analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen provides a powerful tool for reconstructing past diets, since it provides the only direct evidence of the foods that were actually consumed. This volume describes the application of this methodology to the archaeology o...
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Women in the Athenian Agora
Using evidence from the Athenian Agora the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women's lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played: as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual, cr...
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Terracotta Sculpture
The fifth part of the Corinth volume dedicated to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore publishes the large-scale terracotta sculpture found in the sanctuary. Extending from the late 7th through the 4th century B.C., the sculpture consists of fragments from 132 to as many as 147 statues, from half- t...
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In the Name of Humanity
On the centenary of the signing of the Lausanne Convention, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens mounted an exhibition highlighting the American relief aid offered to Greece from 1918 to 1929. The exhibition drew on a rich array of sources, which are presented in this volume for the...
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Hunters, Heroes, Kings
This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the Great.
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classic
About 24,000 figurines and fragments were found during excavations at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, greatly enriching the known body of Corinthian figurines not only in number but also in the addition of many entirely new types and styles
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The Middle Ages in the Athenian Agora
From ornate Early Christian carving to the colourful green and brown glazed pottery that distinguished the city, this booklet shows how medieval Athens was a lively, bustling town with a rich artistic tradition.
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The Neolithic Settlement
This volume complements Lerna V: The Neolithic Pottery of Lerna, by K. D. Vitelli, and completes the primary publication of the results of the Neolithic remains retrieved during the excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1952 through 1958 at Lerna in the ...
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Funerary Sculpture
Funerary Sculpture is the first volume on sculpture from the Agora in over 50 years, bringing together all the sculpted funerary monuments of the Athenian Agora, Classical through Roman periods, which were discovered during excavation from 1931 through 2009.
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Terracotta Lamps II
This volume discusses more than 400 lamps and lamp fragments dating from the Late Archaic to the Byzantine period found over several decades at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
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Vessel Glass
The authors present 404 glass vessels excavated in the Athenian Agora. Although mostly fragmentary, examples are given of almost every type of glass known from the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, and representative finds from Byzantine and later times.
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Industrial Religion
This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and ch...
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Studies in Attic Epigraphy, History, and Topography Presented to Eugene Vanderpool
Twenty-six papers on the epigraphy, history, and topography of ancient Greece presented to the famous scholar by his eminent students and friends.
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Crete in Transition
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C.
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Corinthian Conventionalizing Pottery
This book provides a full and comprehensive study of Corinthian Conventionalizing pottery found during the American School's excavations at ancient Corinth.
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Serving the Democracy in Ancient Athens
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the abundant pottery unearthed alongside the Athenian Tholos, the building that served as dining hall and hostel for the fifty prytaneis of the Council of 500. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of Greek dining culture, ceramic produ...
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The Rachi Shrine and Settlement
Rising 50 meters above the Sanctuary of Poseidon, the Rachi ridge is a defensible location overlooking the Isthmus of Corinth, a suitable place for habitation, production and storage. This volume presents the final results of the University of Chicago excavations on the Rachi, providing informati...
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Gennadius Library 100
Produced to accompany an exhibition marking the centennial of the Gennadius Library in Athens, this volume traces its extraordinary journey—from the vision of Joannes Gennadius to its evolution into a leading research institution—highlighting its enduring role as a centre of scholarship, culture,...
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Ancient Athenian Building Methods (Modern Greek)
This insightful booklet provides a concise introduction to the remarkable engineering and artistry of ancient Greek architecture, focusing on the Athenian Agora. Every stage of ancient Athenian construction is illustrated through helpful photographs and drawings. New updated edition.
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The East Field at Isthmia
The East Field at Isthmia offers a radically new understanding of this neglected area of Isthmia and its relation to the sanctuary; along the way, it both encourages archaeologists to revisit long-abandoned excavation data and provides a road map for doing so.
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Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora (Modern Greek)
Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens’s far-flung contacts. This guide is a useful aid to the identification of common Greek and Roman coinage. The new edition has been updated with the latest discoveries in the A...
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Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora: Revised and updated edition
Religion permeated all aspects of civic life in ancient Athens, and its material traces are visible throughout the Agora. The archaeological and historical evidence for religious activity in the civic centre of Athens, and the worship of major Olympian deities, is explored in this new updated edi...
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Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora: Revised and updated edition
Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens’s far-flung contacts. This guide is a useful aid to the identification of common Greek and Roman coinage. The new edition has been updated with the latest discoveries in the A...
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Ancient Athenian Building Methods: Revised and updated edition
A new and updated edition of this insightful booklet provides a concise introduction to the remarkable engineering and artistry of ancient Greek architecture. Focusing on the Athenian Agora, an unparalleled site for studying building techniques, the authors reveal how monumental temples, public s...
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Mt. Lykaion
This volume introduces readers to the famous Arkadian sanctuaries of Zeus and Pan at Mt Lykaion, a site renowned in antiquity as the birthplace of Zeus. It offers an overview of the historical and contemporary campaigns, illustrating the site’s importance from antiquity to the present through its...
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Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora (Modern Greek)
Religion permeated all aspects of civic life in ancient Athens, and its material traces are visible throughout the Agora. The archaeological and historical evidence for religious activity in the civic centre of Athens, and the worship of major Olympian deities, is explored in this new updated edi...
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Imag(in)ing Samothrace
This bilingual catalogue of an exhibition at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens explores poetic and visual evocations of the northern Aegean island of Samothrace and its cult of the Great Gods over two and a half millennia.
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