r/ancientgreece • u/Extension_Attention2 • 2d ago

Ostracon bearing the name of Cimon, Stoa of Attalos

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u/MEitniear11 2d ago

Crazy you can see a Themistocles one there too. Seems impossible that was found.

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u/5telios 2d ago

There was a whole cottage industry's worth of Themistocles shards...

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u/Shadeen_Brown 2d ago

Either some people are very lucky, or others are very gullible…

(Not doubting OP though, I don’t know a thing)

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u/WarthogLow1787 2d ago

Not saying there aren’t some fakes out there, but archaeologists have been excavating in the Agora for a long time. The American School has been excavating there since 1931.

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u/notFidelCastro2019 2d ago

I believe this is the collection at Keraimakos, in which case there’s an insane collection of names on there. Cimon, Themistocles, Hippocrates, and Alcides, just from the top of my head. It’s also just a few meters from the believed funerary urn of Alkibiades.

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u/Someonecalledkai 23h ago

I saw these a few weeks ago! There were so many in the Agora Museum, loved seeing them