What kinds of records and collections are available on Agathe.gr?

Agathe.gr is a searchable research portal for material tied to the Athenian Agora excavations and the publications of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Its help page shows a filter panel that breaks the holdings into distinct record types, each with a running count, so you can tell at a glance how large a category is before you open it. The categories listed include Publications, Reports, Places and Monuments, Plans and Drawings, Images, Objects, Coins, Deposits, and Notebooks, alongside an "Everything" option.

Record types and their scale

The counts shown on the page give a sense of the collection's shape:

These numbers are the totals displayed next to each filter, so they are best read as the size of each category at the time the page was captured rather than fixed figures.

What the publication records contain

Publication entries are not just titles. Each one typically carries an author, the publishing institution, a year, and a short abstract of the contents. The Agora series volumes shown on the page illustrate this:

• Agora I: Portrait Sculpture — Harrison, E. B., American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1953. Catalogue of 64 portrait heads, headless torsos, and fragments dating from the first half of the 1st century B.C. to the 5th century A.D.
• Agora II: Coins from the Roman through the Venetian Period — Thompson, M., 1954. Presents 37,000 of the 55,492 coins recovered from the Athenian Agora excavations of 1931–1949.
• Agora III: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia — Wycherley, R. E., 1957. Ancient written references, literary and epigraphical, to the Agora and its monuments.
• Agora IV: Greek Lamps and Their Survivals — Howland, R. H., 1958. Builds a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B.C. using data from closed deposits.
• Agora V: Pottery of the Roman Period: Chronology — Robinson, H. S., 1959. Uses closed deposits from the 1st century B.C. to the early 7th century A.D. to establish pottery chronology.
• Agora VI: Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period — Grandjouan, C., 1961. Includes classification by types, a critical catalogue, a register of dated contexts, concordances, indexes, and an excursus by T. B. L. Webster.
• Agora VII: Lamps of the Roman Period — also appears in the results.

How the categories relate to each other

The record types are not isolated silos. A single excavation find can surface as an Object record, appear in an Image, be plotted on a Plan or Drawing, be tied to a Deposit, and be discussed in a Publication. Coins form their own category because of their volume and separate cataloguing tradition, and Notebooks preserve the original field records behind the published syntheses. Reports and Places and Monuments are the smallest categories, which fits their role as summary or reference-level entries rather than bulk find records.

Practical notes for using the portal

The page offers several ways to work with these categories:

• View modes — List, Icons, Table, and Map, so the same result set can be read as text, thumbnails, structured rows, or geography.
• Results per page — 4, 8, 20, 40, or 100.
• Sign in — available, and a feedback link is provided for reporting anything not working or typos.

If you are looking for a specific class of material, start from the category with the matching count rather than searching "Everything," since the 388,401-item total will return a much broader mix. If you are tracing how a published conclusion was reached, work backward from a Publication entry to its Deposits and Notebooks.