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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 5283066, member: 83845&quot;]Thanks guys.&nbsp; I was pretty excited about the Themistocles.&nbsp; I started paying more attention to these ever since [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER] posted about <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/poll-27-14-iamtiberius-vs-27-severus-alexander-round-3-cit-2018.323007/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/poll-27-14-iamtiberius-vs-27-severus-alexander-round-3-cit-2018.323007/">the epic deal</a> he got on his example.</p><p><br /></p><p>The oscracon pieces were one of the highlights of visiting the Athenian Agora.&nbsp; If you ever make it there you can find them in the Stoa museum on your right hand side as you come down from the Acropolis.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221397[/ATTACH]</p><p>The outside of the Stoa colonnade</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221398[/ATTACH]</p><p>Inside the colonnade.&nbsp; The museum is through a door to the right.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221399[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here are some more ostrocon found discarded in what I believe was the same silted up well. Note the one in the middle says “Aristides (son of) Lysimachos.”&nbsp; This was from the ostracism of Themistocles rival. Plutarch tells the story of an illiterate country resident who didn’t know what Aristides looked like and by chance asked Aristides to write “Aristides” on the ostracon just before the vote. The honest Athenian did as he was asked and was shortly after ostracized.&nbsp; Perhaps it was even this shard <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221400[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221401[/ATTACH]</p><p>There is also an upstairs portion with various statues and neat models of the city through time as well as a nice view of the Temple of Hephaestus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221402[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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