Hesperia articles from January 2006

Hesperia archives from January 2006

Sella cacatoria: a study of the potty in archaic and classical Athens.
January 1, 2006... To the memory of Peter Corbett, who figured it out, and Piet de Jong, for so artfully rendering it ABSTRACT This article provides a detailed publication of an early black-figure infant/child seat, or potty, found in the Athenian Agora,...

Lizards, lions, and the uncanny in early Greek art.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT An examination of the lizard in the imagery of Archaic Greek vase painting suggests that it was a figure of power and portent and often an omen of disaster. It is argued that the lizard should be ranked among such uncanny beasts...

The Athenian Prytaneion discovered?
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The author proposes that the Athenian Prytaneion, one of the city's most important civic buildings, was located in the peristyle complex beneath Agia Aikaterini Square, near the ancient Street of the Tripods and the Monument of...

IG [I.sup.3] 1055 B and the boundary of Melite and Kollytos.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Two rupestral horoi found on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens, IG [I.sup.3] 1055 A ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [retrograde with reversed sigmas]) and B ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), are not a single boustrophedon text...